Recent content by legdelimber

I'm assuming the concern over fuel hose sharing is due to the chance of getting a dose of ethanol, due to the hose holding the last customers fuel choice. The QT station I go to has separate hoses for the ethanol blend and the non-blended fuel. I buy my fuel in a county away from the big...

Be a bit wary of friends that stop in when you're working. Springtime. Many years ago, one neighbor had a few days off, so he decided to have a mixed drink or 2 and then seed & fertilize his yard. Riding mower and a mixed drink in hand, pulling a drop type spreader. For some reason, a few...

Dang. I figured there'd be a half dozen electrolysis threads popping up in a search. Hinerman, I'm sorry that I didn't get a proper OPE search answer for you. Abrasives seem to run the gamut from scotchbrite pads to wire wheels to sandpaper to gritty potatoes. Somehow I was thinking that...

If you don't keep a grinder wheel dressed to a radius. After a while, the top plate of the cutter will wear back the area of the wheel that hits the top plate. There's a lot longer grinding path in contact with metal where the top plate touches the wheel. Think about it from side to side...

I seen some rainy days at times, But never bad enough that ya needed a gang plank to get underneath the truck! Ah some days you just gotta do what you can, with what we have. Just give everything a good thought first and try to not get a hand pinched .. or worse.

I'll assume he means that the motor revs, but the chain isn't moving much or at all? I'm a little curious about has the bar been flipped, to see if that has any affect on things? Is the bar twisted somehow? Any damage to the bar groove? Any debris in the groove? Chain been derailed and driver...

Youtube dropped this one on me. A (primarily) Brass band covering a TOOL song? I almost laughed it off without checking it out. They jump in pretty stout with it though. "Brass Against" covers TOOL, The Pot

Briggs used to pack a short (maybe 2 ft) remote throttle assembly with the 16hp Vanguards, or at least the first ones that I saw unboxed. I used a lot of the solid core wires to make nice hooks for pulling fuel and oil lines up in saw tanks, etc. They were pretty danged stiff and springy. Any...

Doesn't look like they improved the two brackets where it all bolts under the main beam. No matter what you do for the motor mount, You still need to brace~trangle the axle/tank assy so that it doesn't break the same way and reason as the first one did

Maybe Lawn Boy needs to check in with the lady friend, that he said was acting a little odd of late?

I see a couple of web sites mentioning that machine "Trim-O" mower. One page has a photo that you can still see the "Trim-O" name on the air shroud. Been a while, but I recall people referring to any narrow cut mowers as "monument mowers" . A couple of sites where people have/had one...

Speaking of decibels and exhausts. Youtube dropped this one in the suggestion list. Wyoming oil well engine muffler mod?

On the block and rounds. I'm trying to see where the connections of that coil(?)are at. Oddity of the plastic bit makes me wonder if that was done for magnetic isolation or electrical. mmm..practice part from machining class? The railroad piece looks like an unfinished casting that might have...

That machine looks like some of the oddball stuff that I occasionally saw, back in the 70's. I'd look carefully at how that swingarm is built. Don't want it to bend or twist after a jump or a bump.

Had a mouse get into the oven at the family place. Little @%$&* peed in every thing in the bottom drawer. Griswold (I think) iron skillets with over 40 years of use. Grandma and Mom had cooked in them my entire life. They taught me to scramble my first eggs in the small one. Sister said...