On 06/02/2013 11:09 AM, Joe Gandalf wrote:
My wife loves her old Lawn Boy push mower; it's very lightweight (esp.
since I removed all the Rube Goldberg self-propelled mechanism) and
easy to start - still! However, the magnesium deck has developed a
crack that runs across the front of the discharge chute. I was going
to bolt a metal plate across the crack as a repair, but it would be a
really sloppy patch.

I would do the bolt-on plate. There is no reason that it has to look,
or be "sloppy", unless that is what you are going after.

Jon