That's why I keep my trusty can of Never-Seize at hand, when reassembling just about anything. That, and by trusty bottle of penetrate made of a 50/50/ mix of acetone, and ATF I got the recipe for, from Soundguy on this forum. Beats anything I've bought off the shelf, bar none.
Yes - but I don't have a 94 year old mother to give me advice. It's OK RSKY - you can admit that you finally took her advice and it came apart easily.:laughing: :dance1:
What you have made is poor man's.... "Kroil"
It does work!
That's a great story, RSKY, I read it to my wife this morning and we both got a lot of enjoyment out of it.
It sounds like your mother is quite spry for 94 years of age, my mother passed away just two weeks short of her 94th birthday, but dementia really took its toll on her the las ten years.
I have the same mower as you, a tough old thing on which some previous owner added a lot more angle iron to really make it indestructible.
Ours has been welded, bolted, chained, and yes tied together with hay bale string. One of the top tubes is braced with angle iron. But it is still going. The gearbox was leaking but every year I put three or four shots of grease in it and it hasn't leaked in several years. Mom kept me busy for years just putting it back together or doing things like flipping it over to cut barbed wire off the blades. But she quit mowing after she turned ninety.
RSKY
She sounds like an extraordinary woman. I admit to winding barbed wire around the blades once myself. Mine is a rough, wooded piece of ground, a few old broken down barbed wire fences hid down in the brush. It's kind of surprising when you are mowing, and suddenly see weathered old fence posts scuttling along through the weeds...and headed your way. Yes indeed, you disconnect, get the boom, flip the thing over, and spend quite a while with snips getting all that wire out of there.