Doug Arthurs wrote:

Couple weeks later he got tired of having it take
up space in the garage and asked me to just come and take it away. I did
and after rebuilding all the worn parts on the cutting deck and filling
up the hydro-static drive with oil and ended up with a great running
machine.



Deja vu all over again...I was given my boss's Snapper riding mover
almost 40 years ago after he overtorqued the spark plug and stripped the
threads in the engine head.

A new head was cheaper than the cost of a helicoil job (about $8 IIRC),
so I just replaced it.

I'm still using that Snapper every summer, though I did have to treat it
to a new engine about ten years ago when the original one lost
compression and wasn't really worth the effort to rebore and replace
parts on.

See it at:

http://home.comcast.net/~jwisnia18/jeff/treegro.jpg


My Airens snow thrower is about the same age. I bought it used for $50
from a guy who didn't know how to stick a new float in the carb. It's a
real "widowmaker", no deadman safeties to speak of, and the front ends
of the auger are exposed at the sides.

Jeff

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Jeff Wisnia (W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)

"If you can smile when things are going wrong, you've thought of someone
to blame it on."