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Originally Posted by john hall

I'm stubborn enough to try to salvage most anything (and cheap enough too) but those things are scrap metal. Find yourself another deck and save the useable parts on those. The last lawnmowers I bought had to have the decks rebuilt. I used the decks and the bearing housings, that was about it--maybe blades. Spindles, bearings, cups, seals, hardware, wheel bolts, pulleys, idlers, springs, belts---decks can get real expensive real quick. having said that, its good to know that everything on the deck is new. So if you do go to look at another deck, check them over really good for wear on the wheel bolts, spindle bearings, wear and corrosion on the pulleys.

Thanks. On a good deck, how freely should the blades spin by hand?