On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 22:56:25 GMT, GFRfan wrote:

| On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 17:36:31 GMT, (Tom Miller)
| wrote:
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| On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 01:01:21 GMT, GFRfan wrote:
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| | I have a Spirit 8hp 2 stage snowthrower. Menards special. I think it
| | is an MTD but can't find any info on the MTD website. I picked up a
| | newspaper in it that was under the snow on my neighbors sidewalk. It
| | is now jammed between the second stage impellar and the feed chute.
| | What I need to know is how do I take the cowling loose so I can get
| | the impellars unjambed? Looks to me like I need to take the bolts out
| | of the ends of the auger and then I should be able to turn the cowl.
| | Any thoughts?
| |
| | tia
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| I'm usually able to get the damned things out without disassembling
| the machine. Try grabbing the paper with big vice grips or channel
| locks and pulling it back out the front. Work it from side to side and
| yank it back. Or try poking at it from the top of the impeller chute
| with a pry bar. See if you can work the auger and/or impeller back and
| forth a little to loosen the paper. Spray the paper with windshield
| deicer spray; it will often melt a little and soften up so you can
| tear chunks off. I even sawed a piece off once with a coping saw. (Be
| sure to disconnect the spark wire first).
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| Then when you are through, if it's a free shopper paper like the
| "Suburbanite" that goes through my snow blower because the dumb ****
| who throws it always puts it right in the center of the public
| sidewalk instead of on the lawn, be sure to drive over to the
| newspaper office and drop the frozen, wet, chewed paper off on the
| desk of the editor in chief or, better, the director of circulation.
|
| By the way, this problem is why I stopped doing my neighbors' front
| walks. This, and because with one exception they never even noticed
| when I did them.
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| Thanks. I think I'll stop doing the neighbors too. And I think I'll
| take your advice and gather the Pennysaver (our version of your
| "Suburbanite", I guess, which is now basically wet confetti, and drop
| it off in their office.
| Sometimes the easiest answers are the most obvious yet most obscure. I
| am posting this in hopes that it may help another "poor soul". 8-)
| I simply took a sawzall, put and old, very course blade in it and ran
| it between the impellar and the cowl and zip, out it came. Man that
| paper sure packs hard. The cowl was actually bulging a bit with it in
| there.

Hey, good idea and way to go!