On 1 Aug 2006 14:04:27 -0700, robgraham wrote:

I saw a comment I think in this NG about finding replacement B & S
engines - the one on my cylinder lawn mower has lost compression and I
can't find why despite stripping most of it down and the solution seems
to be to find a replacement. The question is where to go to ?

Probably cheaper to go to one of the sheds and buy a whole new mower than
getting a new engine from your local B&S dealer. If you existing body etc
is good buy a really cheapy mower just for the engine and dump all the
new body bits. Though if your careful with choice many parts could be
used as spares...

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Dave Liquorice wrote:
On 1 Aug 2006 14:04:27 -0700, robgraham wrote:

I saw a comment I think in this NG about finding replacement B & S
engines - the one on my cylinder lawn mower has lost compression and I
can't find why despite stripping most of it down and the solution seems
to be to find a replacement. The question is where to go to ?

Probably cheaper to go to one of the sheds and buy a whole new mower than
getting a new engine from your local B&S dealer. If you existing body etc
is good buy a really cheapy mower just for the engine and dump all the
new body bits. Though if your careful with choice many parts could be
used as spares...

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Cheers
Dave. pam is missing e-mail

Thanks for all your replies and the ideas, guys; can't be sure but sure
but someone somewhere talked about some sort of dump near him where old
mowers etc ended up and I wondered what sort of dump - no doubt if I
did find such a place locally I wouldn't be allowed to do the logical
thing of recycling, but it's probably worth some beer tokens to get the
guy to switch his eyes somewhere else for 5 minutes.

I'll try searching the archives of the NG's I use.

Cheers

Rob

On 3 Aug 2006 01:06:53 -0700, robgraham wrote:

some sort of dump near him where old mowers etc ended up and I wondered
what sort of dump

The local council dump, I think they call them "household waste amenity
centres" or something with recycling in the name these days.

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