Where does this wire go?

I have a homelite cordless electric lawn mower similar to the Earthwise 60120 20-Inch 24-Volt Cordless Electric Bag/Mulch/Side Discharge Lawn Mower
I don’t know if it is true with the earthwise, but my lawnmower deck is a tad to thin. Last year I ruined a chassis because a bolt holding down the motor tore out a chunk (about an inch square) of the deck. It wasn’t dangerous but required that I buy a new deck. Well, this summer the chassis cracked. Fortunately it was a crack and no missing pieces.

What I did was to go to home depot and buy a few washers to kind of reinforce the chassis at the cracks. I tried out the mower and it seems to be holding so far. But I’m sure over time the nuts are going to loosen up (I replaced the screws and nuts with new ones since the old ones were stripped) The bolts if anyone else is having this problem and is interested are 6mm.

One thing to know is that I am merciless with this homelite mower. I think I posted about it earlier, but as a reminder, I use it to cut down small saplings to size (trunk size of the saplings are about 2″.)

There are only 2 things that are not great about the mower, one is the thin metal of the chassis, If you abuse your mower like I do, then I highly recommend putting washers behind the nuts on the undercarriage that connected the motor to the chassis. Note, I don’t know how safe this is, so do this at your own risk.

The other is that the other is the fact mine doesn’t have a removable battery. The irony is that the charger isn’t made for outdoor use!?! Since it is recommended that you charge the mower once a month when not in use (i.e. over the winter) you either have to park it somewhere sheltered outside with a 110 outlet, or bring it inside to charge it. I put mine in my basement for the winter and charged it as recommended. The battery seems to have made it through winter fine.

So, despite my minor surgery on the Homelite, I’m very happy with the mower. I hope I can find a permanent solution to the cracking chassis.

If anyone has any ideas I’d appreciate hearing them.