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

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

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.

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

"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