Best tip: Stabilize or drain your fuel over the winter, and over the summer if you’re not using it much. Gasoline degrades after a few months, and when it’s inside a small carburated engine it’ll wreak corrosive havoc if stored incorrectly.
How do you learn to do it.?
Do it wrong but carefully until you get it right. Maintain caution. Use gloves where appropriate and the right tools (don’t just wing it with a couple pairs of pliers). Know what it would take for things to spin or move, keep all your parts out of places where you might lose them.
This has helped me keep my fingers finging through many projects.
Honestly just watched some you tube videos. But after the first time it’s pretty easy. Just change the oil, air filter, spark plug and blade.
If you have a metal file and a vice, you can just sharpen the blade and it will last pretty much forever! Unless that’s what you meant.
I tried sharpening once. But between my kids and wife I always manage to hit a rock, or brick, or toy. And that really messes up the blade. New blades are like $20-30, I don’t have to spend time sharpening them, and the old one is 100% recyclable. So I’ll spend $20 to save time.
My town has a small shop that sells mowers and general landscaping equipment, and for a few bucks they’ll also sharpen blades. I just have them do it annually cause I also grew tired of doing it, amd new blades feels wasteful. Maybe you can find a place to sharpen for you cheaply.
I love having an electric mower. Significantly less maintenance.
I happened to do that, too. Clean carb, new air filter, clean spark plug.
I sort of miss mowing a lawn. I haven’t had one for years, but the rhythm of doing it was always nice.
