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Flymo Power Compact 330 Repairable?
Hello,
Nice day to cut the grass I thought. All going well until CRASH!!!! I'd hit the rotary washing line ground spike with the mower and the blade came off with a crunch. After inspecting the damage, it appears that the main bolt to hold the blade on has sheared off leaving part of it still screwed in. Is this a repairable job or does it mean a new mower. Victor |
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You can get stud removers - you drill a hole in the sheared end of
stud/sheared bolt and then screwed in the remover using a tap wrench, it had left hand thread and when it bit hard it would allow you to exert an anticlockwise pressure and unscrew the stud. Radiospares do them at http://tinyurl.com/d3p9u Charlie Markwick On Sun, 1 May 2005 12:42:59 +0100, "Victor West" wrote: Hello, Nice day to cut the grass I thought. All going well until CRASH!!!! I'd hit the rotary washing line ground spike with the mower and the blade came off with a crunch. After inspecting the damage, it appears that the main bolt to hold the blade on has sheared off leaving part of it still screwed in. Is this a repairable job or does it mean a new mower. Victor |
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Hi Victor
Just hope that you are able to get a new bolt! The same thing happened with our Husquavarna ride on, right at the beginning of the mowing season. Can we get a new bolt - oh no!!!. As it's a left hand american thread, peculiar to this mower, we can't just go to B&Q etc. Have phoned and e-mailed Husquavarna agents all around the country, who say they have no bolts in stock, or can't get them, or will ring us back & let us know when they have checked with their parts department - but none of them have bothered to reply. Husquavarna have not bothered to reply to any e-mails. So here we are with half an acre of rapidly growing grass, and one tiny cut hand mower which we normally use for the fiddly bits. The moral of this story ***DON'T BUY A HUSQUAVARNA***!!! I sincerely hope that Flymo parts are easier to come by and you are successful in replacing it. Best wishes Ros Nice day to cut the grass I thought. All going well until CRASH!!!! I'd hit the rotary washing line ground spike with the mower and the blade came off with a crunch. After inspecting the damage, it appears that the main bolt to hold the blade on has sheared off leaving part of it still screwed in. Is this a repairable job or does it mean a new mower. Victor Chichester West Sussex, UK. |
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Seems that the link doesn't work look for part number 264-2230 at
rswww.com. Charlie Markwick On Sun, 01 May 2005 12:13:14 GMT, Tom Pearson wrote: You can get stud removers - you drill a hole in the sheared end of stud/sheared bolt and then screwed in the remover using a tap wrench, it had left hand thread and when it bit hard it would allow you to exert an anticlockwise pressure and unscrew the stud. Radiospares do them at http://tinyurl.com/d3p9u Charlie Markwick On Sun, 1 May 2005 12:42:59 +0100, "Victor West" wrote: Hello, Nice day to cut the grass I thought. All going well until CRASH!!!! I'd hit the rotary washing line ground spike with the mower and the blade came off with a crunch. After inspecting the damage, it appears that the main bolt to hold the blade on has sheared off leaving part of it still screwed in. Is this a repairable job or does it mean a new mower. Victor |
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"Ros Butt" wrote in message ... Hi Victor Just hope that you are able to get a new bolt! The same thing happened with our Husquavarna ride on, right at the beginning of the mowing season. Can we get a new bolt - oh no!!!. As it's a left hand american thread, peculiar to this mower, we can't just go to B&Q etc. Have phoned and e-mailed Husquavarna agents all around the country, who say they have no bolts in stock, or can't get them, or will ring us back & let us know when they have checked with their parts department - but none of them have bothered to reply. Husquavarna have not bothered to reply to any e-mails. So here we are with half an acre of rapidly growing grass, and one tiny cut hand mower which we normally use for the fiddly bits. The moral of this story ***DON'T BUY A HUSQUAVARNA***!!! I sincerely hope that Flymo parts are easier to come by and you are successful in replacing it. Best wishes Ros I would suggest that you try specialist fastener wholesalers. such as http://www.acornfasteners.co.uk/index.htm However a local one to you should be able to identify it or ask Husky what the bolt is l/h unf unc 1/2"? etc and phone and ask for one-no buy two!. Also buy some loctite !! Failing that contact an American husky dealer and get him to mail one over.. http://www.usa.husqvarna.com/ http://www.toroslawnmower.com/ http://m-and-d.com/search.html?id=XZPMzt8m http://65.101.96.233/ Once you've got it email husky hq and have a good moan... Cheers Richard |
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