The Daily Yardman Thread

[Boobala]

Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild

Morning Ted, Stayers and Newbies.
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Hinder

Damn Chuck, your pics get BETTER everyday .... NICE job !! .. :thumbsup:..:thumbsup:

 

[Boobala]

Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild

Sure is good to hear from our Cap'n, here's hopin his sub doesn't get stuck under the ice .. :laughing:..:laughing:

 

[Roger B]

Re: Compressor repower

Thanks for revising..there's only room for one "Goomba" here....

What the hell did I miss? Boo started that Goomba stuff which confuses me as I have a friend in the Florida Keys who has called me Goomba since 1963. He has Italian lineage where I thought Boo was a Pollock.

Then there was this bum-boat guy in Naples who called me Pizon after I finally convinced our Chief cook to give him the three cartons of cigarettes he had promised him for a tapestry.

It's a little more brutal a story than it may seem, because when the bum-boater tried to come aboard over our tank-tops I hauled out my .45 and told him not to. He took the hint. But getting that close to having to shoot someone pissed me off to the point of yelling down the After Battery hatch and telling the below decks watch to get Bubba's *** up with three cartons of Marlboros or I was gonna shoot him!! (Bubba was the Chief cook!) The cigs appeared about three minutes later.. And I handed them over to the guy in the boat..

And that's the Sea Story for today..

Roger

 

[Roger B]

Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild

Sure is good to hear from our Cap'n, here's hopin his sub doesn't get stuck under the ice .. :laughing:..:laughing:

We didn't get the snow here along the coast yesterday. It stayed a nice 36 degrees and poured rain all day. They were supposed to get 8"-14" inland, I'll find out how much they really got this morning when I head for Augusta..

The driveway is still icy as hell. Our plow guy didn't bother to come after the first real snow thinking it would melt the next day and we'd be mad over the expense. But driving up and down on the snow (which never melted) made it solid ice and even all that rain didn't wash it away. Thankfully we have AWD..

How's the weather this morning down there Boo? We talked on the phone with some friends in Crystal River last night and they said it was supposed to go down to 30 there! I hope you're wrapped up and warm.. Wouldn't want you to catch a chill...

Rog

 

[Boobala]

Re: Compressor repower

What the hell did I miss? Boo started that Goomba stuff which confuses me as I have a friend in the Florida Keys who has called me Goomba since 1963. He has Italian lineage where I thought Boo was a Pollock.

Then there was this bum-boat guy in Naples who called me Pizon after I finally convinced our Chief cook to give him the three cartons of cigarettes he had promised him for a tapestry.

It's a little more brutal a story than it may seem, because when the bum-boater tried to come aboard over our tank-tops I hauled out my .45 and told him not to. He took the hint. But getting that close to having to shoot someone pissed me off to the point of yelling down the After Battery hatch and telling the below decks watch to get Bubba's *** up with three cartons of Marlboros or I was gonna shoot him!! (Bubba was the Chief cook!) The cigs appeared about three minutes later.. And I handed them over to the guy in the boat..

And that's the Sea Story for today..

Roger

What the hell did I miss? Boo started that Goomba stuff which confuses me as I have a friend in the Florida Keys who has called me Goomba since 1963.

You didn't miss anything, I posted something to Ron and accidentally addressed your name (Goomba) by accident, then caught it, and changed it, but Ron had read it as Goomba, BEFORE I could change it to Ron,

 

[Boobala]

Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild

We didn't get the snow here along the coast yesterday. It stayed a nice 36 degrees and poured rain all day. They were supposed to get 8"-14" inland, I'll find out how much they really got this morning when I head for Augusta..

The driveway is still icy as hell. Our plow guy didn't bother to come after the first real snow thinking it would melt the next day and we'd be mad over the expense. But driving up and down on the snow (which never melted) made it solid ice and even all that rain didn't wash it away. Thankfully we have AWD..

How's the weather this morning down there Boo? We talked on the phone with some friends in Crystal River last night and they said it was supposed to go down to 30 there! I hope you're wrapped up and warm.. Wouldn't want you to catch a chill...

Rog

Well Goomba we had icicles hangin off our ears this mornin, 36deg and windy as hell, too friggen cold for me !! ..

 

[Ronno6]

Re: Compressor repower

Ron,

By "converter" do you mean "Roto-phase"? That is the best way to operate 3 Ph equipment from a single phase source.

The critter had one of these thingys on it http://phase-a-matic.com/StaticDescription.htm

As far as wiring up a single phase motor is concerned, that's pretty easy, dump the "converter" (whatever that is) and wire the new motor up to 240 VAC. It's probably straight 240V so you won't even need a neutral. Just two hot legs (Black and Red) and a bare ground wire. Figure out what the running amps are and assume the starting current to be roughly three times that. (That is to size your "over-current" device - Circuit Breaker or fuse.) Many motors today will tell you what size circuit to connect them to.

Hopefully it will be that easy.
The starter has provisions for 3 wires...do I just use 2 terminals, or do I wire the ground wire thru the starter?
I'm still fuzzy on where the pressure switch gets inserted into the wiring....
Looks like this is the ticket:


Although, I am not clear on what the "M" on the circle is in the pressure switch circuit.
It appears to me that when the pressure switch closes, L1 and L3 would be shorted together?
I don't think that will work. What am I not seeing?
Any help??

ed. I found a video that even shows the chink starter which I purchased:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb9pYlgL4Ls

Be sure to use the correct size wire. The circuit should be 125% X the current draw. Or to put it another way the current draw should not be more than 80% of the circuits ampacity.
Rog

Going to be a 40A circuit;gonna use 8ga copper....

A query: I recently ran more amps (and wiring) to the previous system. If I had reversed the 2 hot legs at the breaker, would that
have reversed the direction of rotation?
I am not sure that my compressor was rotating correctly............
What I thought I remembered was not how it should have been.

 

[Ronno6]

Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild

Well Goomba we had icicles hangin off our ears this mornin, 36deg and windy as hell, too friggen cold for me !! ..

Curl up with a good "book" and keep warm.

How 'bout a chapter or 2 from this tome:

 

[BlazNT]

Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild

Damn Chuck, your pics get BETTER everyday .... NICE job !! .. :thumbsup:..:thumbsup:

Yeah I picked that out with a migraine. It's been a rough week for migraines. Now that I have hearing aids I seem to be getting migrains moore. Oh well.

 

[Ronno6]

Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild

Morning Ted, Stayers and Newbies.
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Nice rumpus femaleus................