As much as I "intended" to cut back on small engine repairs this year, it has not worked out very well. "The Road To Small Engine Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions" as we all know. Last weekend my cousin called and couldn't get her Lowe's riding mower started. Went over and checked it, bad battery. Showed her how to jump it off on the car battery. Got home and had a message on my phone from a neighbor who couldn't get her Snapper rider to cut. Went over about a week later and found a bent blade after she told me she ran over a piece of cinder block. Still have to put on the new blade. Then there's that poor middle aged woman who can spend money on cigarettes and wants FREE lawnmower service but only remembers my name once a year, maybe 2 or 3 times when her mower goes out. Otherwise she has some form of AMNESIA!
Was having dinner last night in my favorite Mexican restaurant and the waiter heard somewhere that I worked on mowers and wanted me to go around back and look at his old Sears front-tine, vertical-shaft tiller that he couldn't get started. Told me right off that it wouldn't get fire. I said that if it was a cheap fix, just points and labor. But if it was the coil, that's another $40-$60 depending on where I got it. Some other mechanic had priced the fix at $75. Too much for him to pay for such a clunker tiller. Or if I had an old one laying around on a clunker in the bone yard I'd sell it for $15. As usual, it's worse-case scenario in most small engine repairs with me. Coil out~~:thumbdown: I'll have to search the bone yard soon! And these are the people who looked for ME, I wasn't looking for them. It's like something from the movie: "The Lawnmower Dead! Walking the Earth, Looking For A Mechanic!" :laughing:
