Re: (ET) Mower deck crisis!

[Charlie <medievalist gmail com>]

Push mower decks are frequently plastic these days.  I have a
20-year-old Black and Decker 120VAC corded mower that's almost
entirely plastic... polyethylene, I think.  It's been beaten pretty
hard over the years, and the parts that have worn out have all been
metal, oddly enough.

But if you want to protect a fabricated deck from harm, you'd do
better by attaching an engine cut-out to a spring-loaded bumper on the
front of it than trying to make it invulnerable to abuse.  My tractor
weighs nearly half a ton and can go nearly 9mph - it's not practical
to try to make a deck that can withstand me driving it into a tree.  A
cut-out switch is a no-brainer, just wire it right in series with the
seat switch.

--Charlie

On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 9:08 PM, Chris Tromley <ctromley gmail com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 8:55 PM, John Jeno <jjjeno hotmail com> wrote:
>>
>> Should the rear fenders be molded as part of the battery box?  Or is
>> impact a concern there as well?
>
>
> My thought on fenders is to swap the old ones from the original box, or 
> make
> composite ones available separately to be riveted in place.  You don't 
> want
> to mold a 1-piece unit because that greatly complicates the mold and 
> forces
> you into truck shipment (I think).  UPS can handle a box without fenders.
>
> Chris
>
>
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