BS: 'Everything is broken'...

Subject: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Bobert
Date: 26 Nov 12 - 08:07 PM

Well, seems like lotta stuff been breakin' of late... Two blown hydraulic lines on the Kabota... I fixed the first one and the second blew an hour later... It's fixed... Go to start my old chipper... Ran if ya' put start fluid to it then quit... Took the engine out... Cleaned carb and put in new diaphragm... Now no fire... Cleaned magnet and coil... Still no fire... Now I gotta pull the flywheel and check the points...

Gotta 20 year old Crapsman mower... 16 Kohler... Last summer put in new hydraulic lifters... Now it has developed loud valve noise...

Both chucks on my 'lectric drills is tight and sticky and so I gotta pull them and put new chucks on...

Thems is just starters...

I am under siege...

Grrrrrr....

B~

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 26 Nov 12 - 08:12 PM

Don't cry, bobette. It'll get better.
boo hoo hoo

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: gnu
Date: 26 Nov 12 - 08:31 PM

Kabota Blues tune comin on?

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Ed T
Date: 26 Nov 12 - 08:36 PM

"Piece Of Crap"


Tried to save the trees
Bought a platsic bag
The bottom fell out
It was a piece of crap

Saw it on the tube
Bought it on the phone
Now you're home alone
It's a piece of crap

I tried to plug in it
I tried to turn it on
When I got it home
It was a piece of crap

Got it from a friend
On him you can depend
I found out in the end
It was a piece of crap

I'm trying to save the trees
I saw it on TV
They cut the forest down
To build a piece of crap

I went back to the store
They gave me four more
The guy told me at the door
It's a piece of crap

Neil Young

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Nov 12 - 08:40 PM

Bobert, it's happening because the P-Vine is gonna give you all new stuff for Christmas.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Bobert
Date: 26 Nov 12 - 08:48 PM

Oh, how I wish, Rap...

Nah, ain't gonna happen... Her favorite two words are "fix it"....

But I can dream...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Nov 12 - 10:41 PM

New Kabota, now chain saw, new chipper, new splitter, new geetar, new car, new weed patch, new debts....

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Janie
Date: 26 Nov 12 - 10:49 PM

Iff'n it makes you feel like yer in good company, Bobert, on top of all the other car dramas I've had the past few months, I got to use my last AAA tow of the year in the last month of my AAA year this past Sunday, and got a new radiator PLUS a new battery in my Subaru yesterday.

There is good news to be had. The radiator popped less than 10 minutes after leaving Mom's to head back to NC, and Mom, Annie and I finished the jigsaw puzzle as a result of my 8 hour delayed departure, thus allowing the card table to be stowed away in time to put up Mom's Christmas tree.

Somebody needs to have a talk with Sis about bringing these jigsaws puzzles home for the holidays, which we all hate doing, but over which we all obsess over getting done to get them out of the way!

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: number 6
Date: 26 Nov 12 - 10:59 PM

aint no use jivin'

aint no use talkin'

yup, everything is broken


biLL

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Gurney
Date: 27 Nov 12 - 01:43 AM

With you, mate! Both my mini-disk and my tape recorder in one day!
Spite, that's what it is. I know I'm paranoid, and I know why, too.

I borrowed my son's palm-top, but I'm scared to fire it up.

Had to put new RAM in this machine. Had to buy a new mower...

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 27 Nov 12 - 01:59 AM

Be grateful it's not your knees. Or back. Or heart.
Consumer goods are easily replaced.
=(:-( ))

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Bobert
Date: 27 Nov 12 - 12:57 PM

So, I go out to pull the chuck off my Dewalt drill and guess what??? Ain't no screw down in there... It's a hex bolt and even though I have a complete set of 1/4 sockets the walls of them are too thick for them to get in there and pull the bolt... I reckon Dewalt did this on purpsoe so ya' either have to buy a special thin-walled socket from them or pay someone who has one to swap out the chuck for you...

Go the Ryobi one off though...

BTW, bILL... I have done that song from time to time (with cheat sheet)...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Nov 12 - 01:27 PM

Try an Allen wrench.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 27 Nov 12 - 01:39 PM

Everything's Broken
Like the Kabota
Like my old chipper
Like my old drills

Praise to the tool box
Praise to the duct tape
Praise to the grease on
the elbows I use

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 27 Nov 12 - 01:57 PM

Here's your melody
bobette's melody

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 27 Nov 12 - 03:57 PM

That was awful Krinkle. Thanks for reminding me not to click on your links.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: gnu
Date: 27 Nov 12 - 04:06 PM

Hank! STOP that!

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Bobert
Date: 27 Nov 12 - 04:58 PM

Yeah, that was a pretty sucky link, Krinkx...

Got the universal chuck (supposed to work on the Ryobi and got it home and the hole for the screw is too small... Normal... Gonna have to go to Home Depot (yuck) and get the Ryobi one

So I went to the Briggs & Stratton engine to try to get the flywheel off and ended up breaking of the corner of one of the aluminum cooling fins on the magnito that is mounting in the flywheel... Yeah, they have a couple high priced tools for pulling it... Reckon I'll have to pay someone to pull it for me, stick a set on 0new points and a new condenser in there, and reinstall it... $50 down the drain...

But hey!!! Nothin' else broke today!!!

B~

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: scouse
Date: 28 Nov 12 - 05:30 AM

Bobert always remeber the old addage "When all else fails..Hit it with a Hammer." Did it once with a hard drive which I thought broken put it back it old PC an it worked again for another six months.. while I was building a new PC. (very slowly!!)

As Aye,

Phil.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Bobert
Date: 28 Nov 12 - 06:55 AM

The hammer has cost me one busted fin on the on my flywheel already, Phil... Think I'll try Plan C... Pay someone with the correct tools...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Charmion
Date: 28 Nov 12 - 07:59 AM

It's just that ol' black entropy, Bobert. It's what makes us mortal.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Elmore
Date: 28 Nov 12 - 08:36 AM

Thank God my wife is mechanically inclined, or everything around here would be broken.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Bobert
Date: 28 Nov 12 - 08:41 AM

Does your wife have the specialty tool to remove the flywheel from a Briggs & Stratton engine, Elmore??? If so, can I either borrow it or her???

B;~)

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 28 Nov 12 - 08:51 AM

A puller shouldn't cost much.
=(:-( ))

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Bobert
Date: 28 Nov 12 - 08:57 AM

It's not a puller, Krinkx... It's an offset socket that fits over the tabs that the screen bolts to and then tightens over a large odd shaped nut... The only other way to get to it it thru the cooling fins on the flywheel and hope to loosen it with a skinny piece of wood and a hammer... I've gotten them off that way before but this one is tighter...

Once you get the nut loose the rest of the job (pulling the flywheel) is a piece of cake... I have pullers, BTW...

The specialty tool is prolly around $75 to $100...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 28 Nov 12 - 09:02 AM

If you can't rent it or borrow it, buy it.
Then you'll have it for next time.
Or a friend will need to borrow it.
Or maybe you can fabricate a tool. You have a welder, I suppose.
=(:-( ))

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Ed T
Date: 28 Nov 12 - 12:05 PM

How not to do it

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 28 Nov 12 - 12:19 PM

As usual, conversation with Krinkle proves to be rewarding and productive. He adds so much to the combined knowledge of our little community! We should continue to amuse him lest he finds a more amusing little trivial game.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Elmore
Date: 28 Nov 12 - 12:46 PM

Bobert: Sorry. We don't have any such tool. When I asked my wife if she could help she looked at me funny and went to take a nap. If I could I'd lend you Krinkle on the condition that you wouldn't bring him back.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Bobert
Date: 28 Nov 12 - 12:57 PM

My B & S engine is a 5 hp and different entirely from that one... Heck, I coulda got that guys flywheel off easy... He don't know nuthin' about pullers... Using an impact on that is stupid... All ya' gotta is crank down about 15-18 ft pounds of torque with the puller and tap the side of the flywheel with a ball peen hammer a couple times to agitate the molecules and it would have popped right off...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Gurney
Date: 28 Nov 12 - 07:12 PM

Or if you are ill-equipped: levers stressing the flywheel away from the crankcase (not hard enough to crack either) and thump the crank end with a copper-face hammer. Three levers, not narrow ones.
3 levers + 1 hammer = Two people.
Two people with original equipment! Statisticians tell us that the average man has less than two hands.

I've always thumped the shaft of the puller anyway, as did my father before me. It's a fairly fast taper.

The battery just died in the van. It never ends, does it!

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Bobert
Date: 28 Nov 12 - 07:29 PM

Yup, it's all about molecular agitation, Gurney, and not brut force... That's why the guy in the video broke his puller... The puller doesn't provide that little shock that is needed... He's probably broken another 100 of them since...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Bert
Date: 28 Nov 12 - 08:04 PM

Gotta 20 year old Crapsman mower. That is something of a miracle, mine died after the first season.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Bobert
Date: 28 Nov 12 - 08:07 PM

That's why it is still good... Well, I hope... They made stuff well back then... I hope I can get this figured out... Hope it's not the cam shaft...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 28 Nov 12 - 09:59 PM

I hit a brick with my crappy 3.5 hp B&S powered mower. It wouldn't start back up.
I guess I broke something. I just quit using a mower and just weed whack a little every now and then.
What did I break?
Crank?
=(:-( ))

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Bobert
Date: 28 Nov 12 - 10:21 PM

Yer a "bent crank" kinda guy, Krinkx...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 28 Nov 12 - 10:24 PM

Cranky bobette.
I knew you'd have the answer.
=(:-( ))

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Gurney
Date: 28 Nov 12 - 10:43 PM

Henry, there are two things likely to be your problem.

Like Bobster says, a bent crank. You are on your own there. On YouTube there is a guy 'straightening' one with brute force. If the mower is old.....

Then there is the sheared key. (What a name for a folk group.) Try this first!
Strip down the housings and remove the flywheel. there is a little slot in the crankshaft and a matching one in the flywheel.
In this slot is an aluminium/aluminum piece. This is the key, and it is supposed to break before anything else, that's why it's there. Replace it. Job done.

If you don't understand what I'm talking about, get someone who does to do the job. You need a couple of tools.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Charmion
Date: 29 Nov 12 - 04:26 PM

Or you could do what we did and plant a garden. Just say No to grass.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Gurney
Date: 29 Nov 12 - 04:42 PM

Charmion, would it be YOU we hear about in the international news? Some lady in tight circumstances in the USA has planted her front garden in vegetables, and some local Jack-in-Office has ordered her to replace the grass because local ordinances say that front gardens must be suitable to the area. ;-)

We get some whimsical snippets of news, here.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Bobert
Date: 29 Nov 12 - 06:17 PM

The flywheel-in-question is on a 1978 5 hp horizontal shaft engine... I stopped by a small engine repair place today and the guy was so young that he didn't have a clue about my engine not does he own the specialty tool...

BTW, nothin' broke today... Okay, I was trying to load some plastic food containers in the cooler and the sharp edge of one cut the back of my hand which bled like a stuck pig but nothing broke...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Bobert
Date: 29 Nov 12 - 06:35 PM

Spoke too soon...

Just learned from the P-Vine that the folding door in her office has come off it's track and is stuck yet again... That door is possessed... I fixed it last year, too...

Grrrrrr....

B~

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 29 Nov 12 - 09:39 PM

I think I know what you mean. I'll break it down and see. Thanks.
=(:-( ))

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 29 Nov 12 - 10:11 PM

I have 2 old mowers. Not much to do in Winter. I'll try fixing them and some chainsaws and weedwhackers around here.

=(:-( ))

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 29 Nov 12 - 11:29 PM

I think Bent Crank would be a much for suitable name for the person calling himself Henry Krinkle.

:)

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 29 Nov 12 - 11:39 PM

Cranker Jack. Sailor boy with broken toys.
=(:-( ))

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Charmion
Date: 30 Nov 12 - 06:15 AM

No, Gurney, we're Canadians. My husband would love to plant veg in our front garden, but it's dominated by a jeezly great ash tree that has made me something if an expert in hosta culture.

In our neighbourhood, which is basically somewhat ratty, any effort at beautification is a relief. A too-accessible veg garden is frequently raided around here, however.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 30 Nov 12 - 06:18 AM

They steal my tomatoes.
=(:-( 0)

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Bobert
Date: 30 Nov 12 - 08:39 AM

I'm swearing off saying that "nothing broke today" in the hopes that nothing will actually break today...

BTW, the P-Vine has this North Carolina thing where stuff is "fixin' to break"... Huh????

B~

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Charmion
Date: 30 Nov 12 - 11:44 AM

"Fixin' to break" is that stage when the screw is wobbly but not quite stripped, or the washer is just about but not quite done, so you don't actually have to fix the doo-hickey quite yet. Tomorrow, maybe, but not today.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Bill D
Date: 30 Nov 12 - 12:08 PM

"Fixin' to break"....like the toilet in the hall bathroom that has a crack down the front of the tank. Water began to seep thru... I drained it, dried it out VERY thoroughly and applied the 'thin' formulation of a professional type of superglue (cyanoacrylate) to the inside of the crack- two coats.
   That was 4 years ago. About one year ago, I redid it.

Yes, I KNOW I need to replace the entire fixture before.... well, you know.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Bobert
Date: 30 Nov 12 - 12:14 PM

Good job, Bill... Anything that works, right???

Well, today is starting off fairly well - knock on wood - as I fixed the P-Vine's closet door without breaking anything new, fixed her garden sprayer without breaking anything new and finally got the flywheel off my engine without breaking anything new...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Pete Jennings
Date: 30 Nov 12 - 12:22 PM

Sod's Law says it'll go over Christmas, Bill, when the DIY store is closed and the plumber'll charge you mucho dinero, not to mention the replacement carpet, so I'd get on with it if I were you! LOL.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 30 Nov 12 - 01:25 PM

Here, Bobert...cheer up.

Cheer up..maybe you can enlist its help!

Regards, Ol' Fart!

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 30 Nov 12 - 01:36 PM

Bobert...
Better yet...'Lover Come Back To Me'

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Bill D
Date: 30 Nov 12 - 04:22 PM

"..the plumber'll charge you mucho dinero.."

Plumber? You say plumber? HA! I'll pretend *I* know how...until I find out different! I don't HAVE mucho dinero...
(I recently pulled up a toilet bowl to clear a clog...and re-seated it ... twice. The wall part is just bolts & fittings & such... I think. New one should be designed to fit, I'd hope.)

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Bobert
Date: 30 Nov 12 - 05:19 PM

Yeah, toilets is easy...

Thanks, GfinS, fir them clips... Looked to me like that fist guy had a pipe in his diddly bow??? I liked that... Getting ready to debut mine tonight at a joint that I been trying to get my foot in the door for the last year... And I gotta a hot new pickup in it... Oh yeah!!!

Let's see... Reckon a couple other things got fixdercated today... I'm within 15 minutes of having my engine back together and hope I have fire... I cleaned the points so hopefully that will work... If not I'll have to buy new points and condenser and maybe the magnito coil... Hope not...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 01 Dec 12 - 01:09 AM

You're welcome...you Ol' Fart!,,Now let 'er rip!

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Bobert
Date: 01 Dec 12 - 05:26 PM

Let 'er rip and fart in the same sentence???

Never mind... Lousy night last night... No, I played well and Horsefly did, as well, but this crowd was way too rowdy to care if either of us were playing and then...

...the wife of Horsefly's lead geetar player dared me to dance with her and I kinda got passed of to about 3 other womens and came out of the mush with a twisted left knee and can barely walk today...

Everything is broken... But...

... seein' as I can stand I spend some time this afternoon putting my B&S engine back together and it does have fire... Hooray... Gonna get the neighbor's kid to come over tomorrow and we'll get it started...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Gurney
Date: 01 Dec 12 - 11:11 PM

The wheel-bearings of the boat-trailer rusted over our winter, so I've replaced them. Poured the boat fuel into the car, -it deteriorates, but mixed with plenty of new, it's OK. refilled the boat tank. Tried to start the boat.....
Best backfire in my life. Blew the water earmuffs off. Then it caught and ran perfectly. Think the flap-valves were stuck. 2-stroke.

All that's left is to service the reels and check the rest of the tackle.

Life isn't ALL sour grapes and little green apples. Just on principle, some things HAVE to go right.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 01 Dec 12 - 11:34 PM

Bobert: "Let 'er rip and fart in the same sentence???"

How long have we been posting to each other?...YOU KNOW, that it was intentional!!..how could I resist???
Now, if I want any shit from you..I'll lift the top of your head off, and scoop it out!

Regards Bobert!

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Bobert
Date: 02 Dec 12 - 08:32 AM

Guess yer re-living your adolescent days, GfinS... Next thing it will be "pull my finger" or those little buzzer things you hide in yer hand and then shake hands... No, no... Here's one... Rubber cyber-vomit!!! Yeah, I like that one...

As for breakin' stuff, seein' as my knee is still half messed up, the chances of me breaking anything today are slim... Plus, it's football Sunday...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Pete Jennings
Date: 02 Dec 12 - 01:17 PM

It's catching. My car wouldn't start yesterday and I had to get a new battery for it. £120!

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Gurney
Date: 02 Dec 12 - 10:09 PM

Pete, all you Northern Hemisphere folks ought to be buying a spray-can of Ether (Eezistart) for the Winter about now, and finding the grommet in the intake through which you give the famous one-second puff.

Gives the battery a much easier life.
The mechanic-in-a-can.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Pete Jennings
Date: 03 Dec 12 - 09:01 AM

Hey Gurney, back in the seventies I used to do all my own car maintenence - even had the engine out of an MG Midget one time, got it reconditioned and put it back in. And the bypass hoses on them A series engines were a real bugger when it came to re-fitting the cylinder head. Managed it no probs.

Now, I open up the bonnet (hood) of my car and I don't understand much about what I'm looking at. I had to read the handbook to find out where the battery was (in the boot (trunk)). It doesn't even have a dipstick to check the oil - computer does that.

As for finding the grommet in the intake, well...

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 03 Dec 12 - 12:38 PM

Bobert,..Oh go ahead..I'll let you pull my finger...AGAIN!!!

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Gurney
Date: 03 Dec 12 - 03:20 PM

Pete, that bypass hose.. was MUCH easier if you abandoned the original equipment concertina hose and just used heater hose. And worm-drive clips.

I was buying a new battery (again) for the van, asked the electrician about spark-plugs for my V6 Camry (you have to remove the intake trunking, hence long-life plugs,) and he said " come and look at this, then. 'This' was a beautiful newish Aston-Martin. To change plugs on this is a most-of-the-day job, because ALL the plugs are buried under machinery. Approaching NZ$2000 to change the plugs.
Rich man's toy.
It really is beautiful, though.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: Gurney
Date: 03 Dec 12 - 03:55 PM

Oh, Pete, that bypass hose thing only worked when you had the head off.
Theoretically you could replace the concertina hose without taking the head off. Maybe someone somewhere did.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: gnu
Date: 03 Dec 12 - 09:12 PM

Pete... I wish I had never sold my now 30 year old Ford F-150 truck. Straight six. If I wanted to work on it on a rainy day, no problem. Just set a lawn chair and light in there and close the hood on top of me. Now, my tool box is a credit card. Sigh. I got tools up the ass but I don't have a hoist and all the special tools... ya can't even buy some of the special tools unless ya order them from an auto specialty shop and they cost more than new parts! BASTARDS! TRY to get a shop manual! Unreal!

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Dec 12 - 01:53 PM

Hi . Ive noticed You know about derrol Adams on other threads. I own his banjo and was wondering who would want to buy it . I also have rare film footage never been shown . If any ideas my email . [e-mail] cheers....

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: gnu
Date: 10 Dec 12 - 01:57 PM

Best to start a thread above the line.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Everything is broken'...
From: ollaimh
Date: 11 Dec 12 - 12:22 PM

i'm glad my most complicated mechanical device is a hurdy gurdy.

my wife had a car, but she also has a toyoto dealer to fix it.