"It ran last year"....

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Ludwig II

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I like purple lightnings on the insulator of a plug covered in road salt. Pretty.
 

maniac57

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It's all aluminum oxide, all apparently from corrosion of the head. The cylinder looked fine. Head was WASTED!
Scrapped before bothering to look further. Old craftsman brand with a 30-35lb cast aluminum deck.
 

Ludwig II

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That white is zinc, from cheap alloy. I found out that the siding on old French campervans was made out of a high zinc sheet, they start getting holes like worms have been at them. I sold mine quick.
 

GearNut

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That deck is/ was worth slapping a new-to-it engine on it.
Shoot, even replacing the head with another one from a dead donor mower?
Was it an oddball engine Mfg?
I still have the cylinder from my bug. It has rust stalactites on what was the top wall of the cylinder. Weirdest thing I have ever seen inside an engine!