Well the old Victa had finally got the better of me. After more than a decade of steady decline, becoming nearly impossible to start and developing a very noisy and smoky cough, I'd had enough. In a previous life I was paid to repair carbon-pumping motors like this one but I wasn't going to waste any more of my precious time on this particular little environmental vandal. Not a hint of nostalgia here, I poked it with my foot and growled 'That's it. You're gone.' Besides, for the last few months I'd been itching to see if that 500 watt electric motor on my son's electric go-kart would have enough grunt to cut thick grass, and now I had my excuse.rnIt sounds easy enough-just attach the mower blades to the electric motor shaft and mount the motor where the petrol one used to be. Sure enough, that's what many people have done over the years, but of course, I felt the need to do it differently. After all, that is a personality pre-requisite for most of us who read this magazine!
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