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Actually I thought this one looked pretty good! (well not
horrible)
The E12S I rescued looked the same or worse. It had been
sitting outside who knows how long. The bottoms of the battery side panels were
rusted through. It will never be a show tractor, but it runs fine. All it
needed was batteries and a disconnect switch (which were missing). I also put
new bearings in all the motors. It is a fair amount of work to arrest the
rusting. Luckily the major parts on these tractors are heavy steel or cast. I
also believe the sheet metal parts are still available from Bill.
You are right in that the pictures show a fair amount of
surface rust. Also the right mower castor looks bent as it isn't sitting on the
ground.
At a minimum I would be sure all motors can turn by hand; even
stiffly.
SteveS
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