Tristan's New Escapade

Hello and welcome back! This post is all about the third lawn mower I've bought to fix up and it's the biggest project to date. The Rover Briggs & Stratton lawn mower show below is an experience not to be forgotten. I've bought this mower from a guy in Springvale for $30 AUD. There was no cable for the starter so I couldn't give it a test run but I've checked the oil, spark plug and even petrol but there's no indication of serious mechanical troubles. Other than that, the handle bars appeared rough as and the knobs that go with it have seen better days. And then, here are some goodies. In this picture, we have on the right is the starter that has been repaired. Beside it is a new spark plug, new handle bar knobs, a pack of zip ties and rivets which'll be used to attach the air box back onto the handle bar. Another set of tools to the trade are the jerry can and a fluid exchange syringe. It'll be useful to extract old stale petrol out of lawn mowers w...

  Hello again. Just an update, 2 of the lawn mowers have been sold and I now have another lawn mower which turned out to be a big project to date but there'll be more on the next post. Before this morning, I was looking for cheap lawn mowers on the Facebook Marketplace with 2 interested but apparently sold. I came across one lawn mower that is definitely broken. I thought to myself I could buy one of these mowers to strip and sell the parts. Another aspect of working on cars as a financial booster. So there's one at Carrum Downs, I went there this morning, gave it a start and my god it vibrates horrendously. To make things bad, the front wheels are broken off but I bought it for $30 AUD and took it home. As I was working on the lawn mower to fix up and sell, I thought I'll give this broken lawn mower a crack. I've used the broken wheels as stands. That way, there's clearance so the blades wouldn't scrape the concrete floor. I started it but it vibrated horrendou...