This is my Toro time cutter SS5060
uh... zero return radius lawn mower that I'm working on today and uh... I've
got to do a couple of things.
The first problem that I have - you can see right here -
is the uh... handlebars don't line up
and upon investigation I was able to decide that
the left handlebar is bent.
If you look at this
metal plate right here - see how it's bent
in a little bit.
Look at the other side.
It's straight.
If you look at the side that's bent, you can tell
it's not straight relative to the plane of this bar so
I'm gonna take this off
and straighten that out and then put it back on and hopefully
when I'm finished
uh... the handlebars will line up together.
In order to straighten out this uh...
bent metal right here
I'm gonna
put it between some wooden blocks to cushion it. I don't want just bang on this with
a hammer because I'll knock all the paint off
and scratch it all up. So I'm gonna
put it between two wooden blocks
and then I'm gonna bang on the blocks with the hammer
and hopefully that'll straighten it out.
You can see it's curved right here.
So I should be able to get the block across there and be able to bang on it without getting this pipe in there.
So that's what I'm gonna do now is put it in this clamp.
Okay that feels right. I'll leave it.