Approved $2000 *minimum* repair bill today :(

[bunyip]

If you want a challenge try changing a fan belt on an old mini, lots of bad language, skinned knuckles and wasted hours.

 

[RickB]

I can make a pot of coffee and take a shower in about 10 minutes.

 

[FTG-05]

Bummer.

How many hours on the machine? Just curious, as it doesn't really define if it's a lot of easy hours or few hard hours. Just curious.

Just under 1100. I got it in late 2013 with 513 hours on it. I'm the third owner, but the 2nd owner was +70 and didn't use it much.

I don't *think* I abuse it, I'm usually pretty careful with it. But obviously, pulling this one POS ToH tree out by it's roots, I overdid something.

Thanks,

 

[MossRoad]

Just under 1100. I got it in late 2013 with 513 hours on it. I'm the third owner, but the 2nd owner was +70 and didn't use it much.

I don't *think* I abuse it, I'm usually pretty careful with it. But obviously, pulling this one POS ToH tree out by it's roots, I overdid something.

Thanks,

Nah. My guess is there was something already going out before this, and then it finally went. Don't beat yourself up on it. :thumbsup: Heck, it could have been there for years.

For example, about 60 years ago my father in law bought a new .25 semi-auto for protection in the home. They shot it a few times, put it way, and never fired it again. It sat there loaded for 50+ years. He asked me to check it out for him. I took it out, cleaned it up, fired one shot through it. It jammed. Cleared it. Fired a second shot and it blew up in my hand. The slide came back and hit me in the mouth. Ouch! I found a crack and metal fatigue with corrosion in the broken slide. That has to have been there from who knows when?

Anyhow, if you don't think you abused it, you probably didn't. Could have been just waiting to happen, or just one of those unfortunate things.

 

[k0ua]

Nah. My guess is there was something already going out before this, and then it finally went. Don't beat yourself up on it. :thumbsup: Heck, it could have been there for years.

For example, about 60 years ago my father in law bought a new .25 semi-auto for protection in the home. They shot it a few times, put it way, and never fired it again. It sat there loaded for 50+ years. He asked me to check it out for him. I took it out, cleaned it up, fired one shot through it. It jammed. Cleared it. Fired a second shot and it blew up in my hand. The slide came back and hit me in the mouth. Ouch! I found a crack and metal fatigue with corrosion in the broken slide. That has to have been there from who knows when?

Anyhow, if you don't think you abused it, you probably didn't. Could have been just waiting to happen, or just one of those unfortunate things.

That is one reason we always insist on wearing both ear AND eye protection when shooting. Something like your cracked slide can happen. It doesn't happen very often but it CAN.

 

[JWR]

I don稚 know about a 2010 truck but I can change a radiator in the early 2000s trucks in under 2 hours. Probably an hour after I致e done a few. I paid under $100 for the radiator for mine. Add maybe another hundred for antifreeze and new hoses.

Yeah, but you are young and fast and the rest of us are old and slow...I'm 76 and once I get down on the ground I have to hunt for a way to get back up.

 

[4570Man]

Yeah, but you are young and fast and the rest of us are old and slow...I'm 76 and once I get down on the ground I have to hunt for a way to get back up.

The radiator comes out from the top. Getting those terrible spring loaded hose clamps off the lower hose is the hardest part. I don’t remember if the fan clutch has to come off or not. That sucks too. But I don’t think it does.

 

[MossRoad]

That is one reason we always insist on wearing both ear AND eye protection when shooting. Something like your cracked slide can happen. It doesn't happen very often but it CAN.

I did. But I needed a full-face helmet for that one!

I had a curly shaped bruise across both lips from the spring. Mouth went numb. Grabbed my face and just stood there for a moment. Asked my FIL if I was bleeding as I pulled my hands away. He looked. Nope. Just getting red. Got lucky.

First thing I thought of was my mom saying some junk saturday night special would blow up in your hand.... it did! Mom was right! Again!!! :laughing:

 

[k0ua]

I did. But I needed a full-face helmet for that one!

I had a curly shaped bruise across both lips from the spring. Mouth went numb. Grabbed my face and just stood there for a moment. Asked my FIL if I was bleeding as I pulled my hands away. He looked. Nope. Just getting red. Got lucky.

First thing I thought of was my mom saying some junk saturday night special would blow up in your hand.... it did! Mom was right! Again!!! :laughing:

Yes, there are some guns that when new are not worth picking up off of the ground. It is always a good policy to invest in quality firearms. Good workmanship costs money.

 

[MossRoad]

Yes, there are some guns that when new are not worth picking up off of the ground. It is always a good policy to invest in quality firearms. Good workmanship costs money.

Reconstructive surgery would have cost a lot more that that gun. I still have the pieces somewhere. Some day I'll grab it and post what it is, ah, err, I mean, what it was.... :laughing: