"Charlie Pridham" wrote in message
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Hence the post! as the wretched thing would not start without the choke,
once I had bent the controller so it would operate then it would start.
£100
for something that will not work seems expensive to me.
I know the saying goes "You get what you pay for" but my experience with
mowers is you don't, had a great Honda but the deck rotted, had a great
Victor but the deck rotted, and a long time ago had a great mountfield,
Aluminium deck, which cracked. So I now buy cheap and replace when the
deck
rots.

That's why some of them are made of polymer now.