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I am new here, I have my dad helping me, but he doesn't know alot about mowers.
Just wanted to say thank you for sharing some great information here.

I am 12 and go with my dad to auctions, and I saw how much mowers go for, so I thought I would take some money I had saved and try to buy and resell.

I picked this Troy-Bilt 12A-466M011 off Craigslist for $30
Prior Owner stated it ran last season, and the throttle is frozen.
He bought a new mower, and wanted to sell this for parts.

ended up getting a new Stop Cable and it works great!

So far I have done,
New Sparkplug, changed oil, cleaned Carb Bowl and Nut.

Here are a few pictures:

Welcome to LMF! Congrats on your mower buys. Sounds like you're on your way to being a top mechanic. You'll learn a lot on here and soon you'll be helping others with their small engine problems. Seems I was around 12 when I started working on mowers. Where in NC? I'm in East TN, near Knox. Good Luck on fixing your mowers.

Nice machine and probably worth every penny of the $30.00 you paid for it. 50smower

DaveTN said:

Welcome to LMF! Congrats on your mower buys. Sounds like you're on your way to being a top mechanic. You'll learn a lot on here and soon you'll be helping others with their small engine problems. Seems I was around 12 when I started working on mowers. Where in NC? I'm in East TN, near Knox. Good Luck on fixing your mowers.

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Thanks, I am in Hickory Area... north of Charlotte.

50smower said:

Nice machine and probably worth every penny of the $30.00 you paid for it. 50smower

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Thanks! after the Stop Cable I have $42 in it now.

have to look at the muffler, smokes on startup after I changed the oil... I leaned it to that side.
thought it would burn off, but it smokes for a little then stops,
on restart, it will smoke again if I start up again later.

Listed it Tuesday Morning on Craigslist, got a call around 12:30pm - and it was sold by 2pm