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Qualcast model e1 restoration

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rich2233 Fri, 14/10/2016

Hi

i took over an allotment from a guy I know and he gave me his old qualcast model e1. Unfortunately he has now passed away so I see it as a fitting tribute for him to restore it to former glory.

it was painted over poorly with silver paint but upon degreasing I've found it to be nearly all light blue. I have a number of questions regarding restoring it, I know how to do the restoration but it is more specifics about the mower.

- what is the date of one of these? I have read it's about 1940?

- the mower had no roller and no roller pins with it, does anybody have suitable pins and advice on new wooden rollers?

- did his model come with a box and a deflector plate? The blade is fixed at the bottom and not in one piece like normal

- colour? It is all light blue, except the handle which appears to be orange (not wooden which I thought was odd), the cylinder blades are blue but centre of wheels orange, do you have paint codes for this?

- handle grips? They have the rubber qualcast ones on, I swear this must be a later addition because a b1 had wooden handles? Any joy on the qualcast grips? 

 

Any ny help would be appreciated or pictures of one restored if anyone owns one,

 

thank you you in advance, Rich

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Mowtown Sat, 05/11/2016

Hi Rich,

Whilst I do not own one of these, looking in the 50 & 70 Years of Garden Machinery books it says that the E1 was discontinued in 1967 after a run of almost 30 years.  Shows the E with wooden handles but the E1 had tubular, as did the B / B1.  An illustration shows the B1 with rubber? nobly ended grips with Qualcast imprinted & facing forward, a box and thrower plate.  The light tone of the mono illustration backs up your blue and I seem to recall seeing one somewhere as such.  When the B1 was introduced in 1949 this had tubular handles, but not sure if the E1 did at first as this was a new selling point for the B1.

You may find a low cost way to replace the wooden roller is to look out for rolling pins at car boot sales.

Ken.