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Sapphireho · 09-07-2021, 07:35 PM

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Originally Posted by JD001

Question, will you sit through a match?? I remember the last match I attended, it rained, and rained and then rained some more.. I think the teams managed about 30 minutes of play over the whole day!

So, what song do you sing in the 7th inning stretch?

Ultramaroon · 09-07-2021, 08:29 PM

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Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG

Strange how much turn in he has there. I'd expect to see much less bar input. Is that a really sharp corner or just the angle making it look like more then it is?

On his way to coming up for air

Ultramaroon · 09-07-2021, 09:20 PM

Mates?

Stephen W. · 09-08-2021, 01:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Spuds

And the digital camera damn near pushed the target over!

Just goes to show how much the equipment and riding styles have changed over the decades.

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Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG

Strange how much turn in he has there. I'd expect to see much less bar input. Is that a really sharp corner or just the angle making it look like more then it is?

90 degree right. (see image)

NoHaveMSG · 09-08-2021, 02:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Stephen W.

90 degree right. (see image)

Ah, makes total sense now.

JD001 · 09-08-2021, 03:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Sapphireho

So, what song do you sing in the 7th inning stretch?

Oh, we sing this ..

Oops wrong sport..

NoHaveMSG · 09-08-2021, 03:50 PM

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Originally Posted by JD001

You've definitely burning your bridges, what if he gets back with her?

They are already back together lol

Sapphireho · 09-08-2021, 06:15 PM

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Originally Posted by JD001

Oh, we sing this ..

Oops wrong sport..

Neil Diamond and soccer!? Will the excitement ever end?

JD001 · 09-09-2021, 03:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Sapphireho

Neil Diamond and soccer!? Will the excitement ever end?

"Excitement" does sadly come to an end, as the England team nose dives very quickly...

Capt Spaulding · 09-11-2021, 03:14 PM

TIL - Actually, today I was REMINDED - - Small engines (think Briggs and Stratton) will run seemingly no matter what abuse you heap on them. My 25 year old snapper with a B&S engine quit starting. Took it apart and found the plastic intake "manifold" had broken. Same thing happened about 10 years ago and one of my son's buddies at work offered to fix it. Got it back and it ran fine until last week.

Looking at it closely, when my son's bud worked on it he apparently broke one of the bolts that hold the carb bracket to the engine. There had been two. So, he left both bolts off and fabricated a tab to attach the carb bracket to a head bolt. It ran like that for 10 years.

I decided to do it "right," so I tried Kroil on the stub of the bolt and and let it sit- hammer - punch - chisel no dice. So I cut off the bolt flush with the cylinder boss it threaded into with a Dremel. Drilled a small hole through the bolt and squirted more Kroil in the hole. Waited. Tried an easy out. No Dice. So I drilled the whole bolt out and installed a 6x1 helicoil. As I was tapping the casting for the helicoil I looked down the bolt hole and noticed I could see the piston. Sure enough, turn the crank, and it goes up and down. WTF!!

Shit. Well, I've been waiting for the Snapper to die so I could go electric - today must be the day. But, why not finish the job and see what happens. So, I

- installed the Helicoil
- installed the carb bracket with a shiny new stainless 6x1 bolt with a large blob of blue loctite to seal the threads.
- installed the other (formerly missing) bracket bolt
- installed the carb, air filter, blower housing, fuel tank.

primed it a half dozen times and it started on the second pull. Mowed the yard figuring some of the clag from drilling and tapping the mounting bracket hole would get into the cylinder and kill it. Nope. Not so far.

These things seem to be thermonuclear bomb proof. Have to wait a few weeks to go electric.

Dadhawk · 09-11-2021, 05:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Capt Spaulding

TIL - Actually, today I was REMINDED - - Small engines (think Briggs and Stratton) will run seemingly no matter what abuse you heap on them. My 25 year old snapper with a B&S engine quit starting. Took it apart and found the plastic intake "manifold" had broken. Same thing happened about 10 years ago and one of my son's buddies at work offered to fix it. Got it back and it ran fine until last week....
These things seem to be thermonuclear bomb proof. Have to wait a few weeks to go electric.

If you are going to wait until that engine can't be resurrected for a few cheap parts, you are likely going to be waiting a while. I have a cousin who as a B&S Majestic 20 crank start mower purchased by my Grandfather in the 1960s, and has been used as a mower by my Grandfather, then my Uncle and now his son.

In fact it looks about like this one....

JD001 · 09-11-2021, 06:17 PM

Today I learned that Canadians are sore losers!!

Ultramaroon · 09-11-2021, 06:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Capt Spaulding

These things seem to be thermonuclear bomb proof. Have to wait a few weeks to go electric.

Save it for when the electric one dies.

Ultramaroon · 09-11-2021, 06:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Dadhawk

crank start mower

We had one of those. I think I broke the big clock spring.

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