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After buying this mower in September last year I finally collected it today after a mate in American boxed it up for me with a load of parts for my Lawnboy Hobby Gardner rotavator and few other bits. This will keep me buy for the next few weeks.

Mowed the green etc yesterday and the deck was rather noisy and vibrating somewhat. Today I removed it and found the blade on the discharge end was loose. I'm sure I'd tightened the nut fully, with threadlocker on when assembling. Maybe not? Anyway, the blade had worn a groove in the spindle, though the blade it's self was ok. After a bit of thinking, I decided to see if I could make a temporary, permanent even, repair. So out with the spindle. In my tool cabinet I had some Unibond Power Epoxy. Sort of metal replacing adhesive. Worth a try I thought. Filled in the worn part of the spindle and waited for the epoxy to harden. Then turned it down in the lathe until the blade was a tightish fit. Re-assembled and made sure the nut holding the blade was good and tight. I'll put the deck back on the C-125 tomorrow and see how things go. It has two choices. Meanwhile the spindle dimensions have been forwarded to that Wheel Horse hoarder in Peacehaven.

Apologies to Andrew and Richard, I got mixed up on names, I even do that with my own name sometimes

Thanks all I went with the Resistor type NGK resistor gapped to 0.76mm as it was the easiest one to get hold of Just need to stick my new filter on (the one on now is falling to bits) new breather tube on (a mouse chewed through the one on the engine) and new oil breather gasket

Thanks Andrew, I did fix that saw and have it restored, it s a 115cc 1968 Homelite model 2000. I bought this one and it was delivered heavily damaged by the Post. It was missing the bar from the box and they had broken the handle support, it also had very low compression which the seller did not disclose. I found a NOS cylinder, piston, and ring kit. along with a gasket, seal, and bearing set. I also bought another one just like it that runs. These XL-102 Automatic oilers were only made two years (1971-1972), they are really hard to find, I'm happy to have one built in the first year and second year, they are slightly different.

I think I would have done an orderly retreat (reversed the damn car at a high rate of speed)