Recent content by RaulMcCai

warnings? Oil does no self combust. The warnings ( such as they are) are as to Oxygen curing oils like treated linseed oil which being exothermic, does generate some heat as it cures. However warnings aside, I've never seen it get hot enough to matter. The youtuber Bourbon Moth Faked a...

once long long ago craftsman was as good as Snap On now is is shit pure shit

In linux open GNU image manipulator open the image in the top drop down menu select image then from the drop down scale image then in the dialog box input a larger number. It's similarly easy in photoshop but I haven't used it in maybe 10 years so I forget. I threw all microsoft and...

No one in the USA thinks that. We all know that we have let manufacturing slip away and our manufacturing is all but non existent. And it is all because of one thing. Just the one thing. Some time in the 70s we started sourcing US military hardware from foreign suppliers. That began the...

It's not investors. And interestingly it is the LAW~!! Th officers and directors of all publicly traded corporations owe a fiduciary duty to the shareholders. The duty is enforceable at law. If they don't hold true to the duty they can be sued in a derivative shareholders action and...

do you know when this happened? when the switch for Stihl specifically occurred?

I can honestly say that the number of times I've started any of my saws any other way than dropping 'em could be counted on my fingers. Well Throwing is more like, I gotta heave my 440 magnum good and hard. never had any problems starting my 036; that saw is a dream. I even toss my little...

Them Thar Stihl Engineers must a' let the kids do the engineerin' on take your five year old to work day.

check the cutter's drive belt & everything else in the drive circuit

I wonder how much extra power it consumes and how much more slowly you have to go to let it do the job?

leaf blower it is then. Thanks guys

I have just a wee bit of trouble lifting my Ferris 48" zero turn with one hand while hosing the underside of the deck off. Do you use a wash port? A power washer? How do you get all the crap out from under AND while I'm at it, do you deal with the grass build up on top of the deck with...

works~!!! Thanks~!! Now I gotta figure out how to prime the hydraulic pump

thanks. the diode allows power to flow only one way to prevent battery drain down then. Hadn't thought of that. I had it connected to the battery terinal before but for reasons I can not explain I was blowing the five amp fuse. I am guessing I had a ground in the wrong place. I'll find out...

Long story short, I replaced a starter solenoid, but I took it apart so long ago that I don't remember how to connect all the wires. So I Was unable to start the engine. BUT I do have a manual and it shows how to connect all but one. Thanks, Manual~!! It's a Briggs 11.5 Engine, model 21R807...