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Thanks for your insight. Sorry you got your panties in a bunch.
I am absolutely fine.
But it is worth my time to give people realistic ideas about why things cost what they do and what reasonable expectations should be
IF you had a MTD or Husqvarna the answer is tough luck there is no manuals produced for their mowers, just occasional dealer serice notices to suppliment the factory training system.
So the fact that JD firstly produces a manual, then allows the public to have access to them is a priviledge not a right , even if you have to pay for it
Try to get a Stihl service manual or even simple tune up details .
IF dealers get caught giving that to a customer then they can loose their franchise and if any one puts a receint one on line it will be gone in a day or two than the poster threatened with legal action for copyright infringement and Stihl actually do it .