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A while back I found a pair of Fiskars pruners in the road by the house (probably fell off one of those dodgy 'landscaper' rigs we have here) and when I took it apart to clean the blade, the bolt sheared off. Since it's a special shouldered bolt, I searched around for replacement parts, then...

I took a picture of it a while ago but can't find it now, of course... My mixing setup is a tiny plastic beaker from sciplus, a plastic kitchen measuring cup, a funnel and a half gallon plastic whiskey bottle. I mark the 1oz line and 20 oz line with a Sharpie and make 40 oz at a time. The...

First thing to check would be if it has any fusible links coming from the battery that might have burned out; next would be the fuse panel to see if it has a master fuse that went.

From the looks of it you should be able to take off the back plate of the solenoid (where the battery cable goes) and clean up everything in there and see if the old one works again. It looks like a gear reduction starter, so there might be a fork on the solenoid that engages the bendix and...

Having a table big enough for all your projects is an illusion; my work table was 6x20' and the cantilever gates were usually between 33-54'. Having good lighting where you can see the material, and not just the arc is important. It's best to have it coming from behind, but not directly so it...

Is there a part number that you can find on your removed starter? Which has some fairly chewed up teeth on the driven gear. If it does, and you can find a parts breakdown on both numbers and see if the new guts could go into the housing that you know fits. I know it's a lot of work; that's...

Probably the best way to go would be one of those dual halogen work lights with the adjustable stand. That way you could position it where you need it and stow it out of the way most of the time.

A while back I had starter issues with the forklift, it has the solenoid on top and was doing the 'click, click' 40 or 50 times before it would catch and spin over. Took the solenoid off and apart; there is a spring loaded disk plunger that makes contact on two copper square head bolts that are...

One thing that would concern me is punching it out for a helicoil might thin out the edge and you'd get cracks on the outside of the flange. I think I would make some weld in inserts, punch it out to a press fit, weld them in on both sides, grind flush and chase the threads. I know that is...

The welded line is a feed to one of the ports, both to keep hose length shorter and keep from having a vulnerable hose exposed more than necessary. The double acting valve will feed pressure to one side only and allow the other side to flow to the return line. There will be a bypass in the...

Two things: those hinges stick out pretty far and that big of a gate is going to create a pretty good moment arm on them and cause them to flex, and possibly fail sometime. Second, a sixteen foot gate really should have a truss cable in it, that will take a lot of the flex and sag issues out.

Get some Oil Eater. Costco used to carry it, might still.

I'm kind of surprised that you don't have a pulldown with all the other sites up in the menu bar.

If you have an air hammer you can blunt one of the chisels or weld a little chunk of angle on one and use it right on the 1/2" breaker bar near the socket to give it a blast while you're leaning on it. That often works for me when my impact doesn't have the oomph.

Chances are that the overfill and tilt gradient was the factor. If you pull the plug, it will probably be gooey from the excess oil. Clean plug and correct oil level and it should be okay.

If I need a ground and don't want to grind off a lot of coating, I'll use a chunk of rod, and tack it where I've already ground for the repair. Might have to move it once during the process, but it's the least intrusive way to do it.

Could you make an extension tube that slips over the sliding spline that the handle is on and relocate the handle to the top of it? It would need to have a floating outer tube with a big washer or similar to provide the upward force to engage the splines unless you can shim under it or find...

What I'd do if faced with that project would be to source 4 or 5 old car air conditioner pumps for the electric clutches and use them as an electromagnet bar on a couple of wheelbarrow tires and a car battery. Roll it around engergized and drop the scrap on a tarp or something that will contain...

It was pretty obvious that they decided that Jeremy wasn't going to win, and set about seeing to that by any means necessary. They must have looked at the way things happen here and figured, "if it works for the septics, why change anything."

You could have the top rail straight and have one below it with an upward arch that would give it cantilever strength, but that would have each side at nearly 2000 pounds, kind of hard to get across the span to place. At any rate, I hope you glom onto the free rail anyway, you never know...

I probably mentioned before, but my extended forks are made from 4"x8"x7' I-beams that I got, along with a nice chunk of 1/4"x9" flat stock so I could extend them to 8'. $40 for material, pretty cheap project. Since they have a channel on top, they make a pretty safe platform for anything that...

Season two drops this Friday, according to the man himself.

Your plastic bushing project reminds me of a big patio umbrella a friend of mine had that suffered a pivot failure during a wind event. She got a replacement comped somehow, and I took the old one and fabbed up some metal replacement parts. I did two sets while I was at it; good thing as the...

If you tried chasing those holes to 1.50, you'd just wind up stripping most of the threads out. Take your thread gauge and lay the 1.50 blade over your 1.25 bolt. You'll see that moving that much metal would pretty much wipe things out. I'd still recommend going to the next size, and as it was...

For that kind of money, it might be worth investigating whether it's possible to punch them out to a M16x1.5 or more available thread. A drill, tap and all bolts should be far less than half of the extra fines.

Are you sure it's 1.25 pitch? Most metric fine thread in that diameter is 1.50.

Apparently there will not be a series three of Clarkson's Farm, as Amazon just canceled him with extreme prejudice after he wrote a newspaper column slagging off Meghan Markle. Whether they will petty enough to torch S02 that's already in the can remains to be seen, just have to wait for the...

When I was growing up in the 60's in northern Idaho, we had some neighbor cows get out and follow the logging roads to my mom's garden on occasion. Nowdays if I see some neighbors dogs out and about, I'll take them home, or harbour them here until their people get back, if they're not home.

If you have the HF app, you can add coupons to a shopping cart tab, then scroll through them at the checkout for them to scan.

I wonder if it was even a Wisc for sale...I don't recall ever seeing one with a distributor on top, and once they settle on a casting they usually stick with it throughout; eg. Fords have front mount dists, GM and Mopar on the back, etc.

A VH4D (<-- like in my Bobcat) would be a closer match, but it has the distributor on the side of the engine. Here's a bunch of literature on the various versions of engines they made, hopefully something shows up.

I think what I'd do is rough the area up around the hole and the broken part, then clean everything good. Superglue the part back in, just to hold it in the right position, and then layer some fiberglass cloth and resin around the area, going up the outlet to where the hose ends. About three...

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It was a hello thread in the new members area, eleven years ago.

I saw a tip years ago to put soap slivers in the toe of an old nylon stocking and tie a loop in it to hang over an outdoor faucet for a quick hand wash.

The fanatical abhorrence at ROP modification is probably a blanket policy that's aimed at those who either didn't take or failed physics; the same people who are puzzled at why a trailer facing downhill will try and run away from them when they start to drive something onto it, or think that one...

When I was a kid working at the airport back in the early 70's we had a guy come in in an early Bonanza with the piano keys and got the gear instead of the flaps on rollout. Caught it before the mains went, but I bucked a lot of rivets on that one. Back in the 80's when Salem had slf ops...

Harbor has their own app in the play store that has all the coupons that come out in the emails. Just search harbor freight and it should come right up.

Earlier this summer a neighbor was throwing away a bunch of light steel, old temp garage frames, some kind of trampoline frame, a pergola, etc. Anyway, I claimed all of this and managed to make a couple sawhorses to replace some wooden ones that were on their last legs (you should pardon the...

If you can put a band of sheet metal or tin foil around it you can cut it with a plasma cutter. It'll be messy and stinky, but no worse than a skinny wheel and probably a lot quicker.

File cabinets are great, around here they're often free if they're not pretty enough for home or office. Who cares in the shop. I've got one with all the oil and auto chemicals in one drawer and the top is full of folded tarps. Another good storage is lockers - not the full length high school...

Most likely is that you have a spot that's an ideal emergency landing site in a practice area that instructors use. That would explain the recurrence. I might be wrong, but I think flight aware only tracks a/c that have ADS-B out.

And there will be a season three to follow.

Like everything in motorsports, it keeps escalating until you have top fuel chainsaws.

That's the theory for what happened to my across the road neighbor's big oak tree. It was a hot July morning, plumb still and had been hot and windless for quite a while. Water was pouring out of the cuts. Biggest diameter is about 33".

A rem of truss rod is just a chunk of about 3/8" galvanized rod that was cut off the extra length of a truss rod used to take the sag out of a gate. A piece around 8 inches long works good as a makeshift ground, and there was plenty of it available.

What I'll do sometimes on finished stuff if I don't want to sand off a big patch for a ground is do a small circle and clamp a rem of truss rod in the ground clamp and tack that right to the work. Another copper trick is to use a strip of flat stock as a backer for filling holes or butt welding...

There should be a hole in the splitter body that would have a pin driven it that engages the groove in the cutter to keep it from turning. It could be missing, or not in far enough.

I thought that this thread would be about Corb Lund's song...

Is that take-out/salvaged material? It looks too weathered to be newly done. I worked in OI fencing for a long time, welding on something that has been coated requires taking it down to bare metal for a ways around the weld, and it still doesn't weld as good as fresh steel. We would always...

A mower tractor has a stamped frame pan and is light enough that two guys can put in in a pickup; therefore they don't have the structural strength or traction to do anything serious. Many years ago I picked up an 8 hp Sears sans-deck for next to nothing to drag stuff around. Made a blade for...

I'm not too concerned; I've seen this before and I believe that if our adversaries watch our news they'll conclude that they can do more damage to the country by leaving Portland intact. I don't think that there are any other strategic targets nearby.

Metabo makes a pretty good skinny wheel. I find they last fairly long, especially when you take your time and let them cut. I'd imagine that's the case with anything - you can go through saw blades, drill bits, etc. pretty fast if you reef 'em down. I have pretty good luck with the HF 3" air...

If you don't like looking out of an upstairs window, or going over an overpass tenses you up, you should probably give Fall a miss.

I'd bet that the majority of emergency vehicle hits are at night and due to excessively bright whiz-bang lighting. How anyone can expect someone to stare into a tig torch yet not suffer night blindness is inconceivable to me, but not to the policy wonks who mandate it. Agreed on the parking in...

Along the lines of Skipper's (who occasionally had an ayce fish and shrimp special) we had a pizza place called Izzy's that would have a pizza feed. For around $5 it included a trip through the salad bar and all the pizza you could eat off the pizza buffet. We had one of each within a couple...

It's a better design than the original, which is just a lever to pry the cutting edge down, kind of like a can opener. I'd make the bottom overlap a bit longer, and if I was building a set for my own use would use small trailer jacks for the adjustable kickers inside the bucket. That would...

A quick image search indicates that it should have the starter with the can solenoid on top. If it just clicks and clicks and the boost finally engages it, chances are that the big square head copper bolts that the battery cables attach to have eroded and carboned up to where they don't make...

They're like those magnetic parts dishes, when you need it you remember it's already full from the last project started, that's why the minimum number is three.

Instead of spreading ammonia, how about putting some in light plastic jugs with handles, like half gallon milk jugs, that can be strung on a rope across where they try to access? They'll claw one open, get it all over themselves, and hopefully reel away, never to try that again. That way you...

I remember the Edmund scientific catalog. If I recall, it was rather specialized and high end, American Science and Surplus has a lot of similar, as well as other items for pretty low cost that will keep a bodger occupied for days. I seem to remember from back in the 60's a catalog from...

I would imagine that the Clarksons, the Oak Islands, the Skinwalker Ranches, etc, get a sizeable chunk of their operating costs paid for by the filming rights, probably not enough to be profitable on it's own, but a good buffer. From today's RT, Amazon boss gives update on S02.

I was helping the next door neighbor move a while back and they had two bars of this they were going to toss...

You could tack in some fence clips for 2x4s to fasten regular dog eared picket fence boards to and make it look just like a fence. Whatever you do, you'll need to put a truss rod in to take out the sag on the latch side.

Probably the best way to do it would be with privacy link fabric. I don't think you can get it under 5' tall so you might have to butcher a couple horizontals out of your gate to extend it. I did all that kind of stuff for years so it's easy for me to visualize. And it wouldn't add very much...

Just looked at the HD site; it's $105 for a 2.5 gallon jug of the same stuff I got for $39 a few years ago. Still have about just under half of it left, guess I better ration it out.

My cousin in WY posted that yesterday on fb. It seems that it would be money ahead to install electric eye over height detectors a mile or so before overpasses so it would set off some train crossing lights or something to give a hint that something's amiss.

This is a tough one - it's not the sender or the wiring or it would be sporadic all the time, it's not worn main bearings failing to hold pressure or it would only flicker at idle and go out with a few hundred more rpm. A partial obstruction of the screen, or loose pickup tube allowing suction...

I've got some rod in the shop called Aladdin, it's for gas welding that kind of stuff (tig would probably work even better). Best, of course, is fabbing up steel replacements, as the other side should be swapped out as well.

Many years ago, my dad had a friend that was involved in some rather, dubious ops in SE Asia. He knew a guy that was trying to flog a lot of grenade fuses, the only problem was none of them were marked so you wouldn't know if it was an instant booby-trap type, or a timed one for throwing until...

Not sure where this would fall on the scale...

Since you just want to remove the loose and scuff, how about a 1/3 sheet orbital with scotchbrite instead of sandpaper? That should knock the loose stuff off and not have the divot issues of a circular grinder, and go fairly fast.

It's possible; is it right next to the weld seam? A lot of times we'd get ornamental iron railing back into the shop after water would freeze in some of the pickets and balloon them out at the bottom. Whenever I'd build OI I always drilled at the bottom for anything to drain, it also served to...

When you get the new parts welded up, run a few beads of Stellite hard surface rod over the wear areas and never worry about them again. It's amazing how well it keeps things from wearing.

I'm going to venture a guess here and bet that there isn't anything that isn't 3 phase in the whole building. I'm actually surprised that the table full of clamps didn't get liberated along the way sometime.

If you can, take a series a couple minutes apart at the same time tomorrow. It should change position with the sun; if it doesn't it's probably a portal with the other end at Skinwalker Ranch.

I would imagine it won't be too long before some whiz-kid comes out with a dongle that plugs into the diagnostic port that restores the features. Better turn off automatic updates while they're at it to prevent the ECM wars.

That would be more like usenet, one to one file sharing, I believe. Bit torrent uses lots of different people in swarms, and you get a little bit of the whole file from a lot of different users at the same time, while simultaneously sending completed data back into the swarm for people who don't...

If you don't want to buy any equipment or can't find anything suitable to rent, you might consider getting a bid from a fence company. They have all the stuff to make holes and can send a couple guys with a Groundhog auger for up to around 10", if I recall, or a skidsteer with a hydraulic unit...

Have you taken it apart yet? There is just 1 screw in the middle of the dial, it could be that the o-ring collapsed a bit and it's binding on the ports. I've had to do a couple of similar (not from HF nozzles). There could be a spring loaded indent ball to hold it in position, they can be...

I can't remember if it's been discussed, but their assortments are handy to have on hand. Roll pins, cotter pins, key stock, springs, O-rings, etc. I have a couple of Suncast hose reels that were leakers, the big HF o-ring kit had all the sizes to fix them up.

You done good for sure. I don't think that you could get a set of gate hinges from Master Halco for $5, much less two buckets worth.

Harbor Freight engine cleaning gun. Has an angled tip and can siphon water or mild cleaning solutions. A must have for any shop imo.

I got a 2.5 gallon jug of knock-off Roundup from Home Depot when it was $40, so several years ago. I mixed a batch this spring and it did fine; it's kept in the shop, dark and above freezing. No idea on mixed longevity, I have a 3 gallon sprayer and two batches will barely do what I need done.

I didn't catch the drill size, but if it's not too big, I'd make an ez out with a big lag screw and a chunk of 1/2-13 all thread. Weld the lag to the thread, get a chunk of flat bar with a hole in the middle to pull against, put that on, then a nut behind it, then weld another nut on the end so...

So that pretty much means that scrap metal dealers can't accept them anymore? Auto wreckers would stockpile them until their vendor came around to collect them, that should take the tweaker element out of the market. What would be far more effective would be to have the criminal friendly DA's...

I don't know if you've tried to find windshield wiper blade refills, but it's next to impossible. Everyone wants to sell the whole blade, with the frame. That seems like having to buy a mounted tire and wheel because, well, of course we can't just replace the tire, can we? Fortunately I found...

If you go the fence co. route, try and get CQ-20 or DQ-40 2 3/8" tubing. It has a higher tensile strength; it will spring around in the wind but will always retain its shape. When it does fail, it does it rather spectacularly rather than just bending, but for a light pole I'd bet the light...

My next door neighbor was a real estate agent, only reason I know anything about trends here. A year or so ago places were going for over the asking price, and getting glommed up quickly. It's trailing off now, with listings being on the market longer; I think that due to interest rates...

Growing up in way north Idaho in the 60's, every so often on a quiet day we'd be jolted by a window rattling boom, run outside and see a silver glint or contrail moving about twice as fast as the airliners today. Probably from Minot or somewhere in MT headed for Fairchild.

When we made vineyard gates with that type of material, we'd cut the verticals and wrap the horizontals around the tube. Move the stretcher between the posts, restretch, you can use some staples just to keep it from flopping so much and in position, then trim and tie.

I'd always make patches for my coveralls from an old pair using stitch witchery and then sew down the edges, if possible. Any hole or tear would turn into a tinderbox after a trip through the washer, so a bunch of small patches prevented a lot of fires.

When I built gates, we would have lots of rems from truss rods, which was galvanized rod about 3\8". I'd bring home a bunch of that and made a fixture, cut a bunch of parts and made some of these triangle ones. Not the prettiest things, but they nest for off season storage and will probably...

I saw a DC a while back, turns out there is one operating out of Aurora. It could be the one you saw. Couple days ago I saw an Osprey, don't see much military stuff around here that isn't ANG.

I have to say their first generation of Chonda engines are quite good. I just started my frankentiller in prep for getting ready; after sitting outside under cover for a year it started on the second pull.

I think that the space opera with all the hot girls could have been UFO, it was early 70's but I couldn't find anything other than Lost in Space in that time frame. Other good shows in that era: The Invaders, Twelve O'clock High, Time Tunnel, Here Come The Brides, Rat Patrol, Cimarron Strip, and...

I've got a huge book on tv shows throughout the history of television, it also has primetime grids for all of the years (up to 1998 which is the 'present' when published). Second pic is the listings for 1965, it should blow up to readable size if you open it in a new window. If anyone wants a...

I just came here to post that. I'm sure that Michael Berry will devote at least an hour of Monday's show to him.

If you have the rubbermaid style with the threaded collar, you can get replacement spouts from ebay, or other online places. They will have to be labeled "for potable water only", or similar, but they are the same flexi-spouts they came with.

Still have these after all the years...

Just heard on Michael Berry that Bill Fries had died over the weekend, most of you will probably know him as C.W.McCall

My current mower is an aluminium deck Snapper that I got off Freecycle back around 2008. I think the po dumped it because the plate with the speed lever cracked and it won't stay in any of the higher speeds. I don't feel the need to run to keep up with it so it's fine for my use.

Most media players will have a forward reverse button where you can skip or rewind. My tv has that for the USB port, every time you press the button gives like 10 seconds forward or back.

If the tank is above the filter, gravity should purge all the air when the valve is set to air; if it's below the filter using the air setting should purge when cranking without getting air into the injector lines downstream, path of least resistance and all that. If you have enough storage to...

I'm thinking the air setting on the valve opens the top vent so gravity can fill the filter bowl to purge the air, and as such it should allow the line to drain a bit if you can put a vacuum on the filler of the tank. That should let you take the hose off and plug it without losing any fuel...

I just did a quick google nose-about and I concur, it looks like round is only available in 2 5/16, pre-built. Your best bet is getting the weld on; fortunately it looks like 4" tube is the standard so you should be able to get a rem of shed 40 from a fencing company for next to nothing, if you...

Probably for liability reasons, as some chucklehead would put it on the lightest trailer he could find and try and haul a D-6, winding up on the towing something wrong thread. Standardization makes sense, you want all the light plugs and ball hitches to be the same size, and putting heavier...

You should be able to take that ball coupler linked in the first post and weld it to a chunk of 4" round to use in the exiting trailer neck. If it's an odd size like 4.25, you could probably cut the 2 5/16" close and use the existing tubing. Other option would be to skinny wheel the round neck...

You should be able to find a muffler that fits the location at a good price, and then get some weld on reducers that will fit your existing pipe.

I'm heading there later today for one of the flashlights and their hedge trimmer for $30 with the coupon.

Yes, (and not just because that's what they called it) but opposed to being welded wire, which is another common option. The wire we used for the vineyard gates was welded, about seven feet tall and had spacing that narrowed from about 8" at the top to about 1.5" at the bottom, so little...

It sounds like the main battery ground cable has a bad connection, either at the frame mount or the battery terminal. The 18 ga. ground is probably for the instrument cluster and the starter is trying to ground through it. Cleaning up the neg cable should sort it.

Woven is your typical chain link fabric, where you can bend one of the knuckles out and take a picket out rather than cutting it for length. New rolls have a loose weaver in them so you can splice it to the next roll for long runs. We did a lot of high tensile field wire for some vineyard gates...

I've noticed that there are no more paid envelopes in the junk I get. I used to send all their trash back as well, but not to the original sender. Get three junk mails, send a to c, b to a, and c to b. Now everything just has a link. The full page glossy heavy paper ads do serve a purpose as...

I was making some adjustable saw stands a while ago and since I had everything set up I whipped up a set of fingers for stretching woven wire fencing. With a chunk of rebar or some heavy bar stock it should work just as well on welded wire.

If you'll notice the speed limit sign, it's 70, so it would have to have a very gradual lead in and out for even several inches of drop. Assuming it's an interstate so reducing the speed probably isn't an option.

I've got one of the small ones, like in the bottom left of Alan's pic above. It has teeth in it for grabbing bare tension wire for fencing. I think the ones with the long smooth jaws would be for pulling electrical, so it won't damage the insulation or strands.

Have a look in the Bobcat section here and see if anything looks helpful.

You could use fiberglass cloth and resin to waterproof it after it is built and in place. That would also encapsulate all the fitting mounts on the inside, so you won't have to use such expensive stuff, and the tolerances can be a bit looser.

It's about four or five weeks to seed starting time, I use 5 dozen egg flats for starting, then transplant them into pots when they get about an inch and a half. By the time they are ready to be set out, it's usually dry enough to till and get stuff in near the end of April. Hope the garden...

If it spins over but doesn't start, it could be that the fuel shutoff solenoid isn't getting power to the pull coil. With the intermittent symptoms like that, it's often a bad ground wire somewhere, or corrosion in a connector. Clean every ground that you can find, and check every plug...

One has to wonder (among other things) what would cause the towed vehicle to behave that way. It looks as if the tow point on the heavily bodged school bus is to the right of center by a bit, and the front wheels are off the ground. There has to be some kind of tracking error that causes it to...

I was going to suggest Klingspor, but I see that someone beat me to it. We used the 36 grit blue ones in the metal fab shop, they cut great and lasted; I would imagine that their wood line would be just as good a value.

Yep, a compressor and one of the old school non-osha rubber tip guns that give full pressure from a pinhole. They clear a plugged pickup tube easily, you can hear the bubbling.

I don't have that particular tool, but do have 2 of the same color CE; the oscillating saw and Dremel clone, both are quite good and I'd definitely get the double cut saw if I had a need for it.

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That is an odd one. Perhaps the shuttle valve lost pilot pressure when the hose let go, and since the new ones are empty it will take some cycling to get fluid in them again. Can you get all 4 wheels off the ground so it will start easily? I'm thinking that if you can run it for a few minutes...

When it's that cold, even with a block heater the crankshaft and rotating groups for the hydrostatic system is facing huge resistance from honey-thick fluids in the journals and passages. If you can tarp the whole thing and heat it with a frost fighter for a while, it should turn over a lot easier.

Have just a tad over 4" here in Keizer (just north of Salem), a bit more than I was expecting. Not going to warm up enough for it to all go away so it will be around for a while.

Not mine, but this prolific escape artist from down the street shows up here fairly regular. I gave them my number so they can call here first before starting the search if she goes missing, as this seems to be her go-to spot.

The motorcycle cases in that era had widespread issues with the phillips screws. I had a '71 Yamaha 175 and the local dealer had a wall with blister packs of socket head screws to replace each one; you just got the package with your model. Can't remember if it was dealer or aftermarket, but it...

James, you'll probably want these for safe disposal as well; a few years ago craigslist score of loose shells from someone who only wanted the boxes for decoration. $25 for a grand total of 263 shells, mostly 12ga with some 16, 20 and 28. Quite a few paper cases. For those that like the...

I'm still kicking myself for quitting buying .22 when Bi-Mart's 500 round bricks went over $10. Figured I'd wait till it came back down, that didn't work out so well...

Mark and the ghouls down at Graveyard Carz built an incredible Christine replica. The thing on the moon is probably related to why the aliens told the Apollo 17 crew not to return there.

I've got one of those that came in a Sears tool set back in the late 70's. Craftsman calls it a Rolling Wedge Bar.

If you have a youtube account, you can save stuff to your favorites, using the mouse and keyboard on the computer and then slave the tv to that account so you can find stuff easier on the tv. I waited until I had that capability (yt on the big tv) to watch Plane Savers.

Hammond has a new series running now, Richard Hammond's Workshop, in which he fancies himself as an exotic car restorer so he teams up with a father-son mechanic duo and invests in a new facility with no track record or any idea how to run a business.

Yeah, there's nothing left of the inner bearing but the axle race. When you've inspected the hub and axle shaft for damage, you can get part numbers from the other side, which will require at least an inspection and repack judging from this. The good thing is they are standard bearings that...

Like a few have mentioned, I didn't have to take a road test due to a good score in the high school driver ed course. If I recall, I didn't need to take a written test either, the school course was the same and it counted. Just show up and pay, get license. (Driver ed cars were '72 Impalas)...

The '73 had an even heavier spring pack, I've had both a 73 and 75, can see the difference. I still have a trailer made from a 73 Datsun, great little trailer that cost next to nothing to build.

It kinda sounds like the gearbox may be skipping; does it actually dig ok, or can you feel any roughness when you turn it by hand?

I would test the plug on the pickup with a DMM and see if it got the same signal that the vehicle lights did, that should isolate the issue. You can also test the trailer with a 12v source (like an old power supply from a computer, who doesn't have a few of them around) and confirm that they...

If security is an issue, you might want to replace those hitch pins holding the actuator (especially if they are on the front end as well) so someone can't just reach in and pull the pivot pin and open the gate.

"...and yes I would watch another season IF they had one!..." Clarkson's Farm' Renewed For Season 2

You should be able to go to Bobcat Parts online, find their part number for the bearing, plug it into Google (add Bobcat before the number to weed out superfluous returns) and find the equivalents.

If you like this, you'll probably like It's Clarkson On TV as well; it's him slagging off the inane drivel that the various networks trowel out for our consumption. His TG/GT cohorts solo projects are quite good as well.

Using the frame for a ground is fine if everything is welded together so there aren't any continuity issues. When we built a bobcat trailer at work (back in the 90's) it had 2x4 frame rails that the lights were integral to. While it was tacked together, I took measurements and strung pull...

No, everyone left because it was impossible to have a cogent discussion about anything without the rabid Trump haters jumping in to derail everything. It was pretty evident that M had ceded the site to jerrybob for his personal hate blog, and when the spammer ship crashed into it and filled it...

Lots of Wisc. literature in pdf here, including distributor specs and cross ref.

If anyone has a current Cheyenne sectional chart, it might be defined on there. I've tried for two days to get the .pdf one off the FAA website, but unsurprisingly it fails every time.

Whenever one of the warbird foundations have a plane here, I can usually get some good pics, as they overfly me on their revenue runs to KMMV, where the Spruce Goose lives. Monitor 119.1 and when they call in five miles out I get the camera ready. They're at 1000 agl so a fort looks pretty big...

Just being efficient, why make three trips when one will do? Check out an Australian show called Mega Truckers to see how they haul some insanely oversized loads.

Will the solenoid pull if you touch a jumper wire from the battery to the white wire? There should be a good wiring diagram in the service manual from here that will help trace it out. Worst case, you could run a wire from the battery terminal on the starter (not the one that's hot all the...

Marked difference today, it started building a bit of overcast last night and it's only 74 degrees now. It won't last, but it's a nice respite from the heat and allows things to cool down and take in some water at least before the next wave, which isn't supposed to be as bad.

Our overnight low finally dropped from 78 to high 60's, so running my exhaust fan on the far end of the house managed to suck in enough cool air overnight that it's right pleasant now. There was a really intense wind came through yesterday evening, stirred things up good. It's fortunate that it...

I hope that my weather bug is wrong; no one else is painting temps like this for Sunday.

That's a deal right there; it's like you bought the SO cable and bottle and they threw the rest in for free. I still have an Airco 300, robbed the leads and plug for my Tigwave, but I'll bet it would still burn rods all day if put into service.

Those cantilever rollers are for 2.375", and the reason they're so expensive, the cheapest ones being about $100 a copy is because how heavy they're built. They are kind of a one size fits all, and the biggest cantilever gate I built was around 56' long. With all of the DQ-40 material and 9...

I was thinking cantilever as well, but just eyeballing the first pic, it looks like he has an 8 foot opening and a 12 foot corral panel. A cantilever should be 2/3 - 1/3, which should work for this. Only problem is that all of the cantilever wheels are 2.375". If that is a 1.625" panel, and...

Check rolling gate hardware, that should give the items you'll need.

It is in the AP article they linked to, this should be it.

Was rolling through fb and saw this posting about a cracked TN bridge, and figured it was unlikely that there were two separate bridges involved. Basically, it says that a man kayaking under it in 2016 took a picture, and upon hearing about the bridge recently, dug out the pic and took a closer...

Ideally, find another vehicle of the same make and year range and keep this one for a parts donor. Failing that, another vote for parting it out yourself; either a wrecking yard or a scrap dealer won't pay anywhere near what it's worth, not in their business model.

I'm sure that I've posted this on another thread, but I made a man basket for the forklift with some scrap material I had around. About a 4 foot chunk of catwalk, some 1.375" toprail and part of one of those home gym things that someone had set out to the street for free.

A while back someone posted this on the skidsteer forum: Truck Repair Manuals, because of the extensive Bobcat section. there are lots of other brands represented as well, it's worth a look.

Yesterday I deleted all the TbN cookies, relogged in and then left. Today when I hit the icon it took me to the new posts, already logged in just like before. Probably one of the cookies got corrupted somehow, and just like turning it off and back on, it sorted itself.

I'm having the same issue here, after years of being logged in all the time it quit. I'm going to delete all the TbN cookies (30) in FF and start over right after I read everything today as I'll lose all the thread bookmarks.

Help me understand something: if you were unable to load it onto a trailer with sides by picking up the bare chipper with the forks, how is putting it on a pallet and picking it up with the forks any different?

If it has the solenoid sitting on top of the starter, that's probably the culprit. There are two copper bolts that make the circuit for battery voltage and they often erode just enough that the plunger won't make a good connection. They should be square head and can be carefully tapped out of...

I've got an Excel sheet with every vehicle I've ever had, or still have, with dates and prices. Some were free as parts rigs, and the bobcat and forklift are in there as well. Hopefully this will paste in okay... 1967 Suzuki 80 1964 Honda 55 1952 Chevy 1 ton 1971 Yamaha 175 1964...

When I worked at the fence company we'd make gates for a vineyard that had us use their field fence wire for filler, that was some high tensile stuff. Rather than fighting it with pliers, we made up some twister tools from truss rod drop. That would wind a few turns, then trim and use the...

I have that punch, it works fine. That's a pretty good price as well, I think it was around $50 when I got mine.

Seems to be a common malady; we had guys who'd show up at work having just come from the Kwik-E-Mart where they'd dropped a tenner on a deck of smokes, a big fountain drink, and something deep fried from the counter rotisserie. Coincidentally, they were also the same ones who routinely whinged...

If you're holding the nozzle so it's pointing straight down into the weld, lean it to one side at least 45 degrees and try dragging short zaps. Having a wet rag handy to douse it with to keep the heat buildup in check helps too.

A square red knob on the right side, that sounds like the emergency override to lower the lift arms if they are stuck up and the machine dies. If it's pulled out that would probably divert any fluid back to the tank, don't know if it has a switch to disable anything. There should be a manual...

If you have the old part for comparison, Rock Auto has pictures of the items and they are pretty accurate. That sender was used on at least 5 engines, so it should be out there.

There is one listed here, but rather than pay that outrageous price I'd be inclined to do a Wiki on the engine and see which automaker used it and search Rock Auto for the part.

Take a look at the parts diagrams for the 520 on Bobcat Parts Online for the hydraulic system, that will give an idea on how it's laid out. You can also get part numbers for seal kits and search; ebay often has seal kits under the OEM numbers. There might be a manual in the files section of...

Take a look at the 324 pages on Bobcat Parts Online for the upperstructure and see if anything looks familiar. I'd thought it might be for the rear door latch, but that shouldn't be under the engine.

I just updated the location url on my existing TBN icon to the new posts, now when you hit the icon it goes right to new posts, works a charm.

How about a recessed automotive door handle, like on my neighbor's KW? If you could scrounge around a wrecking yard you can probably get all the stuff for the handles and latch mechanism.

A quick Google search indicates that it crosses to a Gates 7345. Looking that up in my big book of cross reference indicates it's a group 71219. That gives an extensive list of part numbers that should be available locally. Also Uniroyal 3V450 and Yazoo 205-345 should be on the list, they got...

My dad hated that show. Of course, he was a guest of the Huns in Krems for a year and a half, so his experience was markedly different than Hogan's gang.

It could be that they have a derated version to defeat some municipality requirements. Remember when Johnson and Evinrude made the 9.9 hp outboards? If I recall that was to get around some state's requirement to license a boat with ten horse or larger engines.

Did you clean any of the carb parts, especially the jets? It sounds like it's having fuel delivery issues, and small engines are especially fussy over partially blocked jets.

First thing that I would try is a chunk of flat bar with a piece of rectangle tubing (or even a chunk of 2x4) in a big bench vise. Press the worst of it out from the inside, then if you could find a piece of RT that would drive between the inner lip and the face you could probably work most of...

To get something from the local auto parts store, you'll probably have to go the back way, by finding filters on an industrial supplier site like Baldwin or Wix, then finding the common brand equivalent of them that the store would carry. Neither site would deep link to the specific page, but...

I've got mine welded to a bracket that slips over one of my big forks, it holds it quite solid and can be tucked away when not in use. Last use was on a 15" full size Ford wheel, works fine for my purposes.

I had a new can of WD that did that, I fixed it by holding down the nozzle and blowing into it with a rubber tip nozzle. It works on some paint cans that have a clot in the pickup tube as well.

I see that you've went with two separate gates; that eliminates the problems that I was envisioning with a double gate system. I built an offset double gate frame for my neighbor to replace the wood gates that were coming apart. These are far lighter and stronger, a 2x4 top and bottom rail...

I've got a folder with every B&S manual I could find, does it look like one of these?

Similar to the flooring caper, I needed to bring home a couple of 20' sticks of square tubing, so I whipped up some side racks. Previously I had made some angle iron side rails with hooks to tie to as the pickup only has four anchor points in the bed. I put 3/8-16 nuts on the underside on all...

We had one of that brand at work, with all the goodies you have you should be able to form and punch for a lot of applications. That special die set looks a lot like a corner cutter we had to uniformly round off plate corners, saved a lot of time on the disc sander. I've still got a couple of...

Speaking about raccoons, a mama and three little ones came across the street into the yard today. They were across the hedge when I got out, but came over to say hi.

At the fence company I worked at we'd get 6x6 and 8x8 plates already punched and dipped, 10 to a box. Grinding off the galv to weld was always time consuming and ate a bunch of discs, so I bought a rotary table and built a fixture so I could cut circles out with a half inch mill. I'd set up...

A few that you don't have represented in your pic... Fencing pliers Safety wire pliers Hog ring pliers Cleco pliers I'm sure they're waiting in the wings with your snap ring pliers, lamenting the shortage of table space to be displayed proudly.

With the extended forks, lifting a pickup bed trailer high enough to work on the lights comfortably. Not shown was the lengths of 1.625" struc tubing that the fork tips rested on for safely working underneath.

Here's a page from the 700-720 parts manual with all the part numbers.

Did someone mention books...