Talon are junk mowers heavily advertised by product placement in all those "make your back yard beautiful in 1 day bull dust shows".
Heavily advertised in all the gardening magazines but only sold in discount department stores because no mower shop who might be asked to fix them would touch them.
Some had Chinese Briggs engines but most had Ducars badged as Talon.
There is no spares back up, no service back up and no aftermarket parts other than blades.
If you know nothing about small engines then it is best left alone or put on evilbay as is.
There are some who picked up hundreds of them from the tip or road side garbage collection that have a reasonable supply of used parts.
AFAIK, Talon has gone back to where it belongs nowhere.
But don't take my word, visit ProductReview.com.au and read what people stupid enough to buy something that was advertised relentlessly on radio, TV & magazines.
Not sure if Husqvarna Aust brought them in or acquired the reminants when they quite rightly went belly up.
I will not even look at one.
John up the road askes for a non refundable $ 120 quotation fee on any Talon product.
OTOH the hand tools, shears, secatuers, rakes, & shovels are quite good. Just the petrol powered stuff is garbage and dangerious garbage to boot.
The main retail store was the place where "Lowest prices are just the beginning"
What the failed to do is finish the sentence- "- of your never ending problems when you buy junk based purely on price"
Put it out on the street and watch it get taken in & put back out again till it gets all the way round the block.
Like all the temporarly diverted land fill Bunnings sell from China , some will be good but most will be trash.
Good mowers come from shops that fix what they sell, which down here are small repair shops not locked into a franchise arrangement so they are forced to stock stuff that they are not happy selling and conning the public into believing they are getting good value for money.
The very last place I would ever buy a mower from is Bunnings.
For the US readers, Bunnings is owned by one of the supermarket companies and has a screaming 62% of the Aust retail hardwear market.
'They also own the 3 biggest wholesale hardwear companies so all up control over 75% of the market.
Their tactict is to make manufacturers supply to them at a loss or they send the locally made product to China then stock the identical looking product , undercutting the local factory and of course as the Chinese product is garbage Joe public thinks the good Aussie product is the same thing with a different name on it for twice the price so the local maker goes broke.
