Roger B
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Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild
Boo,
That's the beauty of electronic schematics, they either have the value of the part or the part numbers written right on them! And the parts themselves usually have one or the other coded or printed right on them. . . Easy-Peasy..... Of course today everything is on cards or in modules and entire assemblies are replaced. Even easier! That's why they called Electronic Techs and Sonarmen - "Twidgets".. - All we had to carry for tools was a P2 (tiny) screwdriver.
Mechanical work is for "Big Hairy Men", with grease under their fingernails and they smell like 90W gear oil.. Yucky.. Unfortunately ALL diesel boat sailors smelled pretty rank. What with diesel oil and hydraulic oil soaked into all your clothing, no showers for weeks on end, cooking odors condensed in the pressure cooker we lived in... yeah, we stunk pretty bad.. Nothing smells quite like the half combusted exhaust of a diesel engine.. You haven't lived until you've been in a sub when the engines "flamed-out" due to vacuum drawn when the snorkel valve gets submerged by large waves and slams shut. The coffin covers pop open on the engines and the boat is instantly filled with exhaust fumes.. OR!!! How about venting sanitary tanks inboard! When we had to blow our "schitt-tanks" submerged, the pressure in the tank had to be bled-off.. Guess where that went?? You got it, right into the boat. We had charcoal filters on the vents but they probably hadn't been changed since the boats were built at the end of WWII!! The filter for number two sanitary was in the overhead of the galley where we ate our meals! Now THAT will put hair on your chest!! Ahhhh, those were the days... I miss them just the same..
Roger
Boo,
That's the beauty of electronic schematics, they either have the value of the part or the part numbers written right on them! And the parts themselves usually have one or the other coded or printed right on them. . . Easy-Peasy..... Of course today everything is on cards or in modules and entire assemblies are replaced. Even easier! That's why they called Electronic Techs and Sonarmen - "Twidgets".. - All we had to carry for tools was a P2 (tiny) screwdriver.
Mechanical work is for "Big Hairy Men", with grease under their fingernails and they smell like 90W gear oil.. Yucky.. Unfortunately ALL diesel boat sailors smelled pretty rank. What with diesel oil and hydraulic oil soaked into all your clothing, no showers for weeks on end, cooking odors condensed in the pressure cooker we lived in... yeah, we stunk pretty bad.. Nothing smells quite like the half combusted exhaust of a diesel engine.. You haven't lived until you've been in a sub when the engines "flamed-out" due to vacuum drawn when the snorkel valve gets submerged by large waves and slams shut. The coffin covers pop open on the engines and the boat is instantly filled with exhaust fumes.. OR!!! How about venting sanitary tanks inboard! When we had to blow our "schitt-tanks" submerged, the pressure in the tank had to be bled-off.. Guess where that went?? You got it, right into the boat. We had charcoal filters on the vents but they probably hadn't been changed since the boats were built at the end of WWII!! The filter for number two sanitary was in the overhead of the galley where we ate our meals! Now THAT will put hair on your chest!! Ahhhh, those were the days... I miss them just the same..
Roger
