Recent content by They call me Mr. Kibbs

Gotta love standing dead!

JD 720?

Thanks again, I'd seen that LRB kit. Interestingly enough, the carb rebuild kit I bought off ebay (Marine Specialties or something similar) had the reed gaskets & carb gaskets in addition to ALL the carb parts. Even sent o-rings for the Hi/Lo needles in case the packings were too far gone, prob...

Good to know Mark, thanks. If I can make some time this weekend may play around with the mixtures before ordering seals. Also will let it idle for a bit longer on its own. I had the carb and reed valve block off it for a couple weeks in an unconditioned garage while waiting to rebuild the...

Appreciate the info, and will start looking into sourcing the seals, thanks.

Was 'gifted' a C-7 Convertible Drive by a retired sitework contractor down the road, in fairly good shape for age and use. Fully cleaned and rebuilt the Tilly HL141A carb, new fuel filter and fuel line thru the air box. Runs OK, idles fairly well and revs just fine (full disclosure, this after I...

Oops, missed the last photo showing it had thru-bolts, cannot see that working on a square unless the square had a continuous slot

A fancy framing square stop perhaps? I dunno, sure is purdy though!

Looks like it's lonely, needs some may, black pepper and white bread

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fgifdb.com%2Fimages%2Fthumbnail%2Fcaddy-shack-struck-by-lightning-hgva8d50cozootb8.gif&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=a3145abf4cf9bb72344474cc1374e2e3a42a8763f167b4753a4ce593cb398079 Hmmmm, thought that would embed the GIF from Caddyshack, not too damn...

Happy Friday, party on! :p:p

I'm sure folks have their reasons, and no reflection on your work but that looks like schlit. I'm more in the camp you mentioned yesterday, have trees or don't. Pretty view from the MS461 though!

Gotcha, thanks, after you mentioned it I do seem to recall hearing about Beachcraft, just not in my world... Sounds a lot like the extreme white collar folk that think nothing about dropping a couple hundred thousand in a Jeep to make a legit rock crawler, then needing to drop $20k into it...

I'm not into airplanes, in fact the only time I've ever been in a small plane was in cub scouts early 70's, Cessna maybe? I read this on Wed and was the 1st I'd ever heard of / seen a Cirrus brand plane, then coincidentally today I get this pop up on the computer...

To me it looks like a star bit drill, or rock drill, you use with sledge, I have a much used one from my grandfather's time on the railroad. Here's more info if interested https://www.core77.com/posts/68321/How-to-Hand-Drill-Holes-in-Stone-and-Concrete