Therefore, the new purchase. Equal first: the mower mows super again and we hope that we now have for 10 years have a reliable companion garden again.
Embarrassing is only when comparing the old device and the new device.
Take for example the handle. While the old mower had a plastic casing in the upper section, you must now tackle the bare tube. While the tube is 2 mm greater in diameter, but the appearance without plastic casing looks very cheap, almost shabby.
The linkage is tapered waist shape in the middle part, so it is not possible to simply continue using the top (with a handle) of the old metal rod.
Replacement of the entire boom is out also, since the lower guide pins at the old Gerätt have 12 mm Diameter, the new but only 9 mm. Rattling and inaccuracies would result here.
That left only the possibility of the old plastic handle poorly adapted to the larger pipe diameters.
Second gripe is the height adjustment. With the old model, there was an almost exact mm-setting scale. The new model, although numbers are somewhere imprinted or engraved, but the setting has nothing to do with those numbers - no pointers, no arrow, no nothing.
So it is impossible to specifically set a specific section level or to switch selectively between two different cutting heights. It remains in a "shorter" - or "longer" -Gefummel.
Because of these two design feature, which indicate that you are traveling with a red pen and not with the green thumb even in Gardena, there are two points deduction.
The core structure of the rotating drum etc. looks identical. Let's hope that was not even spared the quality of the knife. However, this can be determined only after a long time.
