Grass would always stick to the plastic underside of my electric lawn mower, but the manual said never to use water to spray it off. After a lot of hand brushing, I decided to coat the shroud with spray vegetable cooking oil. When I finished cutting the lawn, that shroud was sparkling clean.
Don Peyton
Monmouth, Oregon
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