Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild
Why is it that so many first time posters throw a situation out to the crowd, receive several responses, then are never heard from again??
Give them suggestions and they just go away.....no resolution, no thanks, no anything..........
Do they not know they can respond after their initial post???
Ron,
I have to wonder if my somewhat sporadic posting, (like once every few months, or less) isn't really what spawned your comment, although I do know exactly what you mean and I must admit that I have been guilty of doing that too! Perhaps Chuck is right and if a first time poster isn't informed that he/she has been replied to, then they don't open the site up again. Although I can't say there is any reason to think you would be informed. I believe if you have posted a question, then it is your duty to check periodically to see if you have a reply, (at least for a reasonable period of time) and if your question has been answered, then courtesy demands you thank your benefactor.
I am glad to see that the thread continues to roll along, albeit rather flat in content - ( well the 'pictures' haven't been 'flat'!) - but the day to day comments still tend to be "Good Morning" and the like.. Too much like Bert-mans "Farce-Book" for me. You know what I mean: "I got up this morning! Took a dump. The sun is shining." That sort of stuff.. Only I should have typed it in unintelligible contractions.. "It gud 4 U"... That sort of thing..
Anyway, not much new up here where "Life as it should be" takes place. It's summer (finally) and everyone is working their butts off trying to get everything done before Fall and then snow flies. My big projects have included rebuilding a small metal storage building out at our camp. Becky's father put it up 61 years ago and the floor was going bad as well as part of the roof. I mustered some rugged young fellows to lift it off the old flooring and set it aside while I built a new floor structure and then set it back on the new floor. I built a new wooden support frame inside that was also attached to the steel walls and then removed the old roof. A new wooden roof structure was built with an increased pitch and then I bummed some standing-seam, metal roofing off a buddy that does that for a living and covered the roof with that. He's coming by to fold the over-hanging edges down over the drip edge for me. Should last another 60 years at least.. (Like I'll give a schitt!)
My other project has been building a 2" X 72" bench-mount, belt-grinder all from "found" materials. ("Found" in this case, means free stuff from Craig's List.) I got two motorized treadmills and a huge work-out center for free. The drive for the grinder came from one of the treadmills (2.5 HP DC motor and motor controller) and the frame came from cut-up sections of square steel tubing from the work-out bench. I made my own idler wheels using short pieces of PVC pipe with wooden centers turned on the lathe and glued into the pipe with JB Weld epoxy. Unfortunately that project isn't finished yet as it took second fiddle to the camp project and other concerns. I have more welding to do, but it's coming along.
Oh! I recently (yesterday) had a colonoscopy!! Always a fun time.. Something else to be looked forward to in the "Golden Years"... It was preformed at a VA center hospital by a very pleasant, itty-bitty, Japanese lady, doctor and no, she didn't even kiss me first.. The best part is you finally get to eat something afterwards,,,
So that's it in a nutshell.. I hope the rest of you have been more productive than I have.. Old and slow, that's me...
Adios until the next time I get bored.. (or in this present case, reamed!! LOL) Get it Boo? Bored - Reamed? How about Drilled??
Roger
