What's on your bench?

[Al Smith]

Good heavens that deep around here you'd hit oil .Prior to the boom in the Oklahoma crude this area was the hottest oil field in the USA .Most of it is still down there .Problem is it's sour crude ,high sulfur .
The water is right around 100 to 200 .

 

[Al Smith]

As far as the generator I actually don't know the last time I fired it up .It might be longer than 6 years . That Briggs 8 HP has a pulse activated fuel pump that works about like a diaphragm carb . I imagine it was stiff and wouldn't pump .

 

[WillG]

Carb reassembled and reinstalled, added a fuel shutoff so he can run it out of fuel when he's done using it. Just need to test run, change oil/spark plug and sort out some missing hardware.

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[MustangMike]

When I first built the house in '85 the static level of my well was 100', now it is between 500 and 550.

I guess that is what happens when hundreds of former Summer Homes are rebuilt as year round homes.

The zoning has changed from 1/3 acre to 2 acres (to support well and septic), but the change occurred way too late.

I was fortunate to be able to buy the lot behind me at a tax sale, so I have 2/3 of an acre. Gives me some room for a garden and to play with my wood.

In most other areas of NY they don't like to go that deep as you will hit contaminants like sulfur, but not around here. One of the local drillers told me they are now often going down to 1,600' to find water. The trouble is, when one person goes deeper, others on the same vein often go dry.

Neighborhoods that have opted to go for Town Water often get stuck paying $4,000-$5,000/year for their water, while we are surrounded by NYC reservoirs that we can not access. It is really quite insane!

 

[Al Smith]

On the subject of water tables it can vary depending on the sub strata .This flat glaciated portion of Ohio has aquafers that go clear up to lake Erie .It's on a lime stone base with several deep deposits of gravel placed by the first and second ice ages . In just this one county the water could be as shallow as 20 feet or 200 feet for a good flow .If you hit a gravel vein it stands a chance of being heavy iron but in the limestone it could be sulfur .Having two wells I have to deal with both .
My deep well,180 feet from what I gather historically was not sulfur until they drilled an oil well about 1.5- 2 miles away .25-30 years later the oil was down to a
stripper .After they stopped pumping it and one of the aquafers became silted in and pretty much stopped the gas infiltration .I use that well for my geo-thermal .Nearly all the sulfur is gone now days .

 

[MustangMike]

I'm on a clay capped hill with solid granite underneath. You have to get lucky to hit a good vein, and the zoning restricts where you can drill (100' feet from a septic if level or up hill, 200' if down hill). As a result, I was only allowed to drill in one corner of my property.

The well drilling and pump were very expensive, but I have good water and I don't have to pay thousands / year for it. My current pump is a 3 phase.

To go deeper than 850' with the pump would have required replacing the plastic pipe with steel, and the pipe alone would have been and additional $5,000!!!

 

[Al Smith]

That probably is not as bad as those deep wells in western Kansas or eastern Colorado .They are half ways to China ,several thousand feet .The remote irrigation pumps in the 70's used either Ford 300 sixes or 460 V8's running ballz to the wall .After about 2000 hours the entire unit was replaced with a rebuilt unit .On I-70 you could see the glow of the exhaust manifolds 2 miles down the road .Those big v8's at 80 percent load could drink 15 to 18 gallons of gasoline per hour .I'd well imagine those by now have been replaced with 3 phase electric pumps if power were available .

 

[Ronie]

Just got a Partner 500 and have a 5000 on the way, hopefully the 5000 has a good closed port cylinder.

 

[WillG]

Today is just crap at work....Merc 240 EFI jet drive, as soon as I touched the cps screws they snapped off. Pretty sure I found why it had no spark though.

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[qurotro]

The knuckle pivots on that post and holds all the pressure from the brake spring. I doubt anything would hold up. These saws are getting sold so I don't want to have any issues. Ill get a new clutch cover.

372 has the same design. I believed 572 as well. There's a cover that hold the knuckle down to the bottom to reduce the load on the top of the pin.

 

[WillG]

Ended up getting the broken bolts out with some heat and lube. Flywheel back on. Alternator pulley back on in the morning when the paint is dry.

Finished the valve job on my buddy's generator and got it fired up. Extended test run tomorrow after work.

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[PA Dan]

All three finished and off the bench!

 

[Rogee]

372 has the same design. I believed 572 as well. There's a cover that hold the knuckle down to the bottom to reduce the load on the top of the pin.

Except that the 372 and 572 are inboard clutches so totally different set up

 

[Maintenance Chief]

Ms441 is side lined till an impulse line comes in,it does fire on prime and choke will make it sputtering run , I'll probably just replace the fuel line while I'm in there again. Its nice to know its close to up and running.
In the meantime I have a 4200 on the bench for a bearing change , it ran well and has good compression but the bearings were just a little bit sloppy for me , I've had it for a couple of years so its allowed me to gather NOS parts like carburetor, air filter, and bearings.

 

[tickbitintn]

All three finished and off the bench!

I hope the trashed 200's look half that good when/if they get done!

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[Xr650jkallen]

Nothing but a chain to sharpen on the bench. I did hang a couple of banners today.

 

[PA Dan]

I hope the trashed 200's look half that good when/if they get done!

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Someone say 200's...?

 

[tickbitintn]

Yup they still filthy, except for the one long block I got cleaned up. [emoji3525]

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[PA Dan]

Yup they still filthy, except for the one long block I got cleaned up. [emoji3525]

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Well get going on them! I got a couple like that too!

 

[heimannm]

Seems to be a theme lately, 011 AVT came in two weeks ago, 011 AV came in today. The AVT dropped the reed at high RPM, will need a piston. The AV has a leaky FW side seal.



Later on a Wildthing was dropped off, fuel line, starter rope, and a repair to the chain adjuster. Folks need to realize they must line up the bar nut with the hole in the bar when they put the clutch cover back on.

Mark