Sunday 24 October 2010

MEA MAXIMA CULPA


I’ve spent a day assembling the ride-on attachment. Despite my best efforts I’ve had no luck removing the galvanised plating from the seat so I’m having this vapour blasted by a metal finishing’s specialist. When dismantled I kept all the fasteners for this attachment in a polythene bag duly labelled but during assembly I decided that these really were too badly pitted, burred over and rusted for reuse. Having drawn a line under buying any more fasteners and with most of the old ones beyond restoring I’ve resorted to using just a few stainless M8 metric bolts and nuts which I had in stock. Sorry Mr Charles H Pugh for this slight deviation from your original spec but I promise these nasty Euro fixings will be kept to a minimum and confined only to the ride-on attachment.  
The photo -minus the seat- shows the rollers wrapped around with rubber strips for protection. This is easily removed.  Now finished the whole sub assembly has been very lightly misted with WD40, covered with oily rags and stored away in my garage till final attachment to the mower next spring.

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