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Some premiers ( governors to you ) did over do it a bit. OTOH we had the second lowest covid deaths per head of population in the entire developed world The annoying bit is the fact that the governments botched things because being an island we could have & should have held covid at bay till...

All items of culture is brainwashing and that includes religions There is nothing genetic in you that makes you American & me an Australian Same as right & Wrong, all learned & what is right to some is wrong to others Most natives marry the girls off immediately after their first menstruation...

Pix are blue , Gates L & G are green, Gates fractional Hp are brown ( both kevlar ) , Sunbelts were white or creamish .

You can not hate some thing that only exists in the minds of the brainwashed so no I do not hate God, in fact I do no hate full stop. When I lived in the city I used to go to a lot of public lectures & debates One that was rivetingly interesting was given by a scholar who has been translating...

They all did such a good job at convincing Joe Public that just putting a bottle of recycled oil in their boot ( trunk to some ) would cause the engine to blow up. Down here it is only large vehicle users like mines , bus companies, big trucking companies , railways & shipping that uses recycled...

FWIW When ever I do a head job I replace the aluminium rod with a steel one . Those of us who regularly do engine rebuild will have stories of alloy push rods worn so thin where they rub on the plastic guide blocks you an bend them between 3 fingers

That is a pretty screwed view of Darwinism which in itself is a flawed view of evolution. It also shows you have never actively tried the breed animals or plants to enhance a particular quality or you would understand what evolution was actually about . As for Darwinism, it is the opposite of...

That is standard practice because the inlet sucks so it drags oil into the engine so the resulting exhaust would not meet EPA specifications Exhaust blows so leaks around the exhaust valve just increase the crankcase pressure that vents through the carb .

It actually dosn't you know. A lot of native tribes live quite happily with each other In fact the Australian black fellas have been doing this for somewhere around 75,000 years . During which time they managed to work out a very complex set of laws observed by all of the Known 205 nations (...

You are welcome to your beliefs as is every other person on the planet on the proviso that you do not attempt to farce any one else to take up your beliefs against their will . Unfortunately commercial interests always win and commercial interests are always short term because when everything is...

It will be an MTD of some sort Victa never ever made a ride on mower Red ones are MTD Green ones are Murray or Noma Grey ones are Noma Blue ones are from the China plant that makes the new Murray's

There is one little catch to that Jimmy The planet has finite amounts of every mineral So with every "throw away" anything there should be an environmental tax to cover the cost of recovery of the non renewable resources and the disposal costs . I generate 1 cubic meter of landfill / year and...

You are way over your head You can buy quality mowers that will run forever with just regular servicing and the companies stock parts for 40 year old mowers. They are called Walkers, Grasshoppers & John Deers ( excluding the 100 series ) But people just will not pay a fair price for a quality...

I said it was the cheap & nasty test. I do it with every mower that I service because I have a tilting trailer which tilts to about 30ish degrees So I test them as I unload them then make notes in the service record . As for my yard, I do have a honda I scored for free that will need an tranny...

Yep. Back when i wore short pants, the rich people painted the bottom of their paining fences with creasote ( coal tar oil to some ) . Us mear mortals painted the fence with used auto oil Both practices are banned now days by environmentalist who failed science at high school So some gets used...

I worked with professional photographers back when digital photography was in its infancy and we had 8 bit images, then 16 then 32 then 64 With every new camera that came out the pros, who had no understanding of digital at all would rush out & get the latest & greatest gear .I would cart around...

You have been spending way too much time on social media Name one single place in a mower engine where the scuffing force is so high it needs that added protection of zinc. Now if you are talking about a 2000hp monster truck engine with high lift cams and double valve springs that is a different...

The only upgrade to the LA wheels that I have found to work is the use of the full length Toro caster wheel rollers . everything else has failed myserably .

They are rebuildable as the tranny makers all sell drop in replacement pump / motor units. They are not difficult to do if you methodical & **** about keeping everything clean All of the hydros are the same technology people just call them different names. Eatons exited the mower hydros a decade...

People think it is a conspiracy but in reality it is the consumers fault 100% If no one bought the $ 1000 ride ons then no one will make them If everyone bought the $ 10,000 ride ons then that is what the factories will make The problem is the buying public are too cheap for their own good...

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If treated nicely those trannys are good for about 1000 hours Driving at anything less than full engine speed drastically reduces their service life Cheap & nasty test is to park on a hill turn off the engine then lot off the parking brake A perfect tranny will just sit there . A totally...

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The big problem is he file format used in phones called RAW it links all of the pixels to each other in order to reduce the write time so you get a nice sharp picture When any web server sees a RAW file it sees it ab bing near 50 the actual pixel dimensions and rejects it a being too large Even...

yes there are 4 diodes inside the rectifier so between each AC and the DC you should show a short circuit with the probes on way and an open circuit with the probes the other way round Between the AC & the case should be the reverse of between the AC & the DC + terminals and open circuit...

They also slip restrictive gaskets between the carb & the manifold Honda do that on all of their engines when carb jet size used to be done you could see from the IPL's that different engnes had different jets but now days looks like they only list a& sell the single largest jet I came across...

when I finally graduated a freshly minted 4 year graduate metallurgist was paid $ 8,000/pa. a 3 year certificate accountant was paid $ 15,000/pa and a 2 year trained book keeper $ 11,000/.pa . Needless to say I kept on at it doing 4 more diplomas part time but after 8 year I was told to retain...

In Oz the rate is around $ 75,000 /pa which is $ 15,000 less than the average wage The the shops wonder why they can not get trades people .

A battery is a chemical reaction All chemical reactions either generate or consume heat So all of them have an ideal temperature range making this worse is electrons have to travel through the paste material Traveling around the surface of the grains of Pb in the paste shows up as voltage...

Yes or it will not open the valves then allow them to close again. a lot of "quiet" cams are quite gentle so valves do not slam shut Bad cam followers usually cause excessive cam wear as will valve guides that shift in the head also low oil caused by being low or the slinger being defective

You can do the same on the generator because it is governed . However in Amal parlance . the replacement carb has to have an equivalent needle jet so it accelerates quickly under load or you end up burning out whatever is connected

Nothing like the truth we made electric fork lift batteries that were good for 20+ years Yes after 5 or so years the storage capacity started to drop off but 20 year down the track they still had 20 hours of run time per charge Now on a fork lift, having a 3 ton battery is an advantage because...

Grab the governor arm and manually try to accelerate the engine . Listen carefully to it If it starts to miss like it is running out of fuel, then that is what is wrong If it sort of muffles and just stops them check the muffler for blockages . If it sounds like the engine is struggleing then...

Once again the US government sells the population down the toilet All Australian batteries come with a government mandated 12 month replacement warranty Most then will add a further 1 to 3 years of pro-rata warranty. Mower batteries should have thicker plates with 2 connections per plate to...

They do things like go to thinner rings mid season or a lighter piston The bore & stroke will not change Also not uncommon to switch suppliers for parts mid season

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same animal NaOH / Sodium Hydoxide / Caustic Soda / Lye / Washing soda , used to the active ingredient in most drain cleaners to break up the fat balls & hair. also a favourite way of making bodies vanish

cek the valve lash & whie the rocker cover is off check each rocker moves the same amount Remove the flywheel nut / bolt and visually confirm that the 2 halves of the flywheel meet to make a perfect square .

Two things 1) left side gets more debris on the case so needs to be cleaned more often 2) left side is on the lack side of the belt so slips more then the right lest side usually go first .

No it is simply because the moist air that came in cools down overnight. As the air cools it capacity to hold moisture drops so the water forms droplets & runs down the side of the tank

Fuel stability isa random thing I live 500 yards from the landord. is old house is by the river & the new house is up the hill 60' to be above the flood line. Between us is open pasture My fuel keeps fine for over a year , his goes off in 2 weeks . It is all about your local microclimate , shed...

cranks get dumped in warm 1/2 strength pool acid or boiled in caustic soda, both will strip off the built up alloy Check for roundness , rare to find one oval check the bottom of the cam shaft boss carefully for cracks at both ends, common for them to crack, usually at the sump end Give all...

It was 10th hand throw away dad had an old pulling boat of the 12 oars x 2 men per oar It was a very sturdy boat but a real hand full single handed I got an old victa lawn mower outboard conversion in bad shape but the 125cc engine & 4" prop did not give much of a push. don't know where the...

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that will be fine get a die grinder or similar and make the hole smooth left right & top bottom so the edges do not break away

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We had a fishing boat ( small one ) with an outboard and a sealed fuel tank so every now & then you had to pump it up

I came here when I was 58 to learn the stuff I did not know I have been fixing mowers since I was 10 Your attitude will get you in a lot of grief. As a minor you may get away with IRS irregularaties but the IRS can be right royal PIA and a young inexperienced person such as you is considered...

In the land of the free & the home of the brave perhap things are done too cheap I used to make batteries ( well the company used to make them, I worked in the lab ) There is a plethoria of different paste technologies, plate sizes shapes & thicknesss Any one who installs a flooded cell...

Naw the tthread was not that long I got to th end of it before having to take a dump:rolleyes::poop: