Recent content by PGB1

If you choose to replace the engine, often Surplus Center has a wide selection of new, name brand engines for decent prices. It may be worth checking into. (They have a lot of hydraulic items, gear reducers, lawn equipment parts such as seats and other treasures, too.) They usually have mostly...

Perhaps the wrong replacement fuse was installed. Was the original a Time Delay and the new Fast Blow? That's critical. A possibility why the fuse opened in the first place: Fuses can go bad over time due to periods of vibration. The flat element vibrates its brains out. Kind of like bending a...

If you're ever in a jam for a small JIS driver but happen to have a Reed & Prince driver, quite often that driver will operate the screw. I know it sounds odd because the R & P tapers to a fine point, but it works well on JIS when held at a tiny bit of an angle off perpendicular. Taking an old...