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Clubroom => General Discussion => Topic started by: Tim754 on February 15, 2016, 04:39:32 pm
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Another gone.... http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/victa-lawnmowers-to-end-australian-production-of-engines-as-sales-plummet/news-story/eba489f2d59f3b7e534c3ea9ea694cd9
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Yep, apparently a throw-away engine/mower is better for the environment than one which is almost infinitely repairable/reliable.
On another note, how many toes were lost testing that prototype?
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I don't think that's right some how. I haven't seen a new 2 stroke victa mower for a few years & Briggs & Stratton make 4 stroke engines. I'm still using an old 2 stroke victa mower. Jimson
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I have always had 2 stroke Victa mowers.
Recently got a EGO 56V Lithium Ion mower.
It seems at least as powerful as the old Victa was and is a much better mower.
I won't go back to petrol now.
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Have a red victa mover (full crankshaft type motor) with JAWA 20 carburetor fitted :)
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Victa Did come a Long way from a Back yard in melbourne .
My Dad is in to Old Motors and Victa Mowers is only One of he things too
and I help him out at rallies and the Nats yes they Do have machine Nationals
The First Victa " The Peach Tin Mower " or "The Toe Cutter""
Peach Tin was used as a Petrol Tank ..Victa used a Hurricane Engine made by Villes but could not take the hard Oz Heat .
so Victa started making the Engine Him self and the rest is History ..
Most People think that the Victa 18 was th first Mower that Mower was the 4 model I think ..
(http://i1063.photobucket.com/albums/t512/oz555ktm/z_2.jpg) (http://s1063.photobucket.com/user/oz555ktm/media/z_2.jpg.html)
(http://i1063.photobucket.com/albums/t512/oz555ktm/zzfirst%20victa%201.jpg) (http://s1063.photobucket.com/user/oz555ktm/media/zzfirst%20victa%201.jpg.html)
Picture From a Blokes Collection of a 150 Victa Mowers
(http://i1063.photobucket.com/albums/t512/oz555ktm/zfirst%20victa%202.jpg) (http://s1063.photobucket.com/user/oz555ktm/media/zfirst%20victa%202.jpg.html)
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Sad day indeed. learnt the basics of two stroke thanks to the old victa's.
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Like Mark I have been using a battery mower in the yard for a couple of years now, its just too easy.
Have the ride on for the rest of the place though.
But it is sad to see our icons fading away.
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Lucky for Australia we have plenty of people who know how to dig holes in the ground, otherwise Australia wouldn't have anything to sell the world other than large parcels of productive land!
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Keep your petrol mowers, because lithium is running out lol jimson
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Keep your petrol mowers, because lithium is running out lol jimson
Hi Jimson, I know your only taking the piss ;D
Although Lithium is a finite resource, the world reserve of this resource is quite substantial.
And guess what region has nearly a quarter of it. I think WA has a lot going on there with Lithium?
(http://i677.photobucket.com/albums/vv132/mc125mick/Lithium-reserves_zpsdgkgb0o3.jpg~original)
We currently produce 36.8 % of world demand.
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Silver is the resource we are quickly running out of!
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Silver is the resource we are quickly running out of!
I could do with more Drinking silver :D ;)
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yeah i love the old victas and often leave the dump shop with a slasher type victa's for my farm but 150 of the forkers is a serious sickness ;D ;) i remember recycling off the dump over 100 in a 2yr period which all got reringed and the last 2 took forever to do as i was just about "victaed out" ;D im still using the 2 slashers i made up for the farm 15yrs later on with only the airfilters being changed and lots of blades as got lots of blade destroying rocks around the house
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Where do you buy the black carb primer button these days ... had no luck at mower shop??
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Where do you buy the black carb primer button these days ... had no luck at mower shop??
I bought my last one from the local mower shop. They come complete with the white nylon float hatch door, new needle and o ring $14. There is also 80 of them on ebay.
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Victor Richardson lived in Concord NSW not Melbourne Vic.A mate of his who worked at the nearby Mortlake gas works in Sydney had a lot to do with it as a foreign order ( remember them ) !!!
A friend of mine has a mower shop and ordered a Victa two stroke for a customer last July 2015, he received it a few weeks ago and has another 6 customers waiting.
I saw a bike at Moorebank scrambles back in the day fitted with a Victa motor!!!
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My first motorbike experience was a bike we built as mates when we were just turning 10. Lived near the Newcastle tip. Treasure land. Victa 18 came from there. A couple of inches of Rubber air hose forced over the end of the crankshaft, with washer and nut put back on to hold it there which ran directly onto the rear tyre of the 28" inch Speedwell. Bolted on via two 1/4" flat bars bent to 90deg angles. One engine bracket, bolted/clamped to the area that a side stand normally would be just in front of rear wheel but behind pedals crank. The other bracket bolted through lower frame spar that runs to rear. Pedal crank removed and a long industrial bolt with pipe sleeves fitted for foot rests pegs. Victa 18 fuel tank tied under top bar. Continuous direct drive. Throttle lever on handle bar. The smaller one of us would sit in the turned up racing bars. The skipper on the seat with thumb on throttle. A third would push until fired!! Then run along beside and jump up side saddle on to the top bar. Obviously we only rode it on the road. It was fast too. We loved it. Coppers didn't, hence the forced closure of Newcastle Motorcycle inc.
It was shortly after that we discovered stepthru's, had a thing called suspension. So we disappeared into the scrub in stead.
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Plus no shoes, Dunlop volleys or thongs!!!
Obviously you blokes went on to a career in innovative engineering.
Cheers.
Martin
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I still use my Victa slasher the Self propeld model .
I gave my Daughter my victa mower 3 years ago now she wont part with it
I also had a Victa out board a few years ago they built a Jet leg and put the 125 motor on it it was
great for trolling for Cod in the Murray River no Engine noise in the water...wish i still had it..
The Stig