OutdoorKing Repair Forum Forums Collectors Corner Cylinder Please Help me Identifying Pops Victa

Thanks Mowerfreak, paul_c and NormK.

I found the fact that someone wouldn't want to know what fuel mix their mower used very strange - then I put 2 and 2 together and it came straight up on gumtree.

Hopefully whomever buys it will look after it properly

Thanks for your support, I was a little bit apprehensive about posting the comment, but I now see I needn't have been worried

Regards
Tyler

Hey don�t take it to heart! Before I joined/knew about this forum I had posted it on gumtree hoping someone with info could help me understand its identity.
To be quite honest I never was un-grateful to the kind replies from members I�m just pointing out the fact of having certain discussions which are between seperate matters should be held in the appropriate topic forum.
Sorry if you have taken offence to my honesty but I paid my member fee to have the right to voice my questions and to educate myself thanks to the help of far more qualified members than myself, not to be called out as any less of a member just because I had seeked more info from gumtree first....

It�s 2 stroke 125cc, it�s not that strange to not want to know the mix as most people with any knowledge on small engines or dirtbikes would know this very easily.
Please don�t assume that people who allready know a stroke oil/fuel mix are strange and have a alternative motive

G'day Shannth15, Tyler, Norm Mowerfreak and Paul
I just got back from the Midlands and read this topic.

I thank all members who show personal bothering, with the
desire to help others.

Anyone who asks a question and gets replies should always show appreciation,
even when additional advice and information is given, not directly linked
to the initial poster's question.

For Mods and Administrators we are meant to keep topics on topic.
This topic, in my view, did not go off topic, and the issue of fuel mix is
relevant to keeping these old mowers going.

It's best that we respond with thanks to all replies, even when some
information may not be needed. My TEST: always looks to intention.

Tyler, you had nothing to fear but fear itself.
Your intention was to simply help someone else - in a genuine way.
That you had trepidation in your reply is a sign of good intent.
But you displayed the strength to post!

A lesson for all of us for sure!

Cheers
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Jack

Thanks CyberJack. Highly appreciated response there!

Same here CyberJack
Your response is greatly appreciated

Thanks
Tyler

Did u see my question?
How can you say it�s not off topic?
If you post something asking for it�s identification and I start shooting off about how you should clean the air filter because it gets dirty and the best way to do so would be ...............
Then every other reply is about how cleaning the air filter is wrong or u should do it this way ............
I think your idea of addressing a specific question must differ from mine.

Shannath15, you did get all the answers you were after and I don't see why it bothers you what extra things we discuss in addition, especially when it pertains to the running of your machine. It is common for people not familiar with 2 strokes to destroy them by running straight fuel and we were not to know your intention to sell off the machine. Would it hurt to inform any buyers the same though, especially if they ask you, the seller what mix to use?! It may well clinch a sale if they see you have some knowledge. Discussion forums commonly move off in some pretty crazy tangents and I hardly think this was one of those.
We do indeed have differing perspectives, but as they say, information is power.

Shannath15 � I was going to make another observation (similar to Mowerfreak's), however I found an apt emoji to describe how I feel � like I�m �

Hello Tyler, Mowerfreak and Shannath15

Yes Tyler, a new topic on the fuel can would be appropriate.
Moved to HERE.

Mowerfreak, a good summary of intention there.

Shannoth15, I'm sorry you feel this way.
This is an old, member-driven forum of good will.
We have to accept the ebb-and-flow of the forum structure.

It is amazing what new information comes about by logos - the free
speech available on any topic.

From my point of view, many topics are split up as the topic progresses.
For example, this topic has now moved off-topic ... less about Imperials,
and more about what constitutes a topic, and how members reply.

Another off-spin - now - is the fuel can issue.

ODK is not that odd a place - given how stories are told in everyday conversation.
Most conversations I have with folk move on and off topic.
We do an okay job in moderation here, or the best we can; given it's all voluntary
and informal.

I was hoping you would take onboard my view - about intention.
I hope you cherished Pop's Imperial goes to a good home.

Hope this helps.
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Jack