Your, right, they are asking us to stop polluting the planet but scrapping a lawn mower for a small part N/A is OK!!
I will continue to search but if you find a replacement for my rings or a piston assembly I will be here.
Thank you for your help.
One of the main problems is the low cost of the replacement equipment and the customer's attitudes.
Here to do a job this resizing with the proper rigid cylinder hone will take 1-2 hours and not counting disassembly and re-assembly. By the time I charge for one hour plus parts the customer is really balking at the repair cost. I simply pass on these small engines when it comes to rebuilding them.
And on top the customer just don't how an engine can cost more than equipment it came on. Equipment OEM buy in huge volumes and get huge discounts where a small shop can't get these discounts. Even as a dealer I only got a 20% discount on parts. When my distributor started demanding $2000 in sales per year when I didn't those parts I had fore go being a dealer any longer.
It is bad enough that I have 80K in parts sitting in the bins awaiting sale and I only moved 15K of them this year and that included new never before needed parts.
Then you get customers like one I got right now that insisted on me over nighting parts in the parts and then when I had machine repaired doesn't want to come and get it because it costed $110 to repair a Mantis tiller. He even came by and lied twice during the same conversation. First he never got my voice mail and second that he be back the next day. Well that was three weeks ago. I not even going to complete the repairs to the Husqvarna 345 chainsaw. No point having a customer like that especially one that said he is a business owner himself.
On top this now Briggs is NLA a lot of their parts due low volume of sales.