Is there no "how not to" heading?

[Highpower]

Ken, I've had great luck with Evapo-Rust from HF. They have it in smaller bottles as well.

FWIW.

[PixMan]

Nuts. The only problem with that (and there's a HF store about 8.5 miles my home) is that I'd have to walk into a Harbor Freight store to get it. And that ain't a happenen'.

I'll find it elsewhere. The two times I went there I walked out empty-handed, finding nothing of any quality or value in the store. I've had the same experience at Walmart, and won't go in there ever again either.

Thanks anyhow.

[Mayhem]

(02-25-2012, 08:49 PM)PixMan Wrote: ...I've had the same experience at Walmart, and won't go in there ever again either...

Was it just the quality of the products or the folk that frequent Walmart that scared you off??

[PixMan]

(02-26-2012, 03:03 AM)Mayhem Wrote: Was it just the quality of the products or the folk that frequent Walmart that scared you off??

If they had anything I would buy, the freak show would be worth the trip.

I couldn't help but notice that the Walmart Supercenter store 5 miles from me in the next town has led to hiring two more cops. The number of calls to that place was tying up the bulk of the force.

[stevec]

Well, I thought I might have bothered you all with some blather about the "front mounting" of my snowblower on this thread , tis the problem with multi foruming, so now I'll try to bother you here.

I have converted the snow blower from rear mount to front mount. The main problem with the rear mount was due to the higher speed of reverse on these old A-C tractors, it's just a little to fast for the 530 rpm PTO speed to the blower. That and the fact that my head no longer swivels like that of an owl motivated my conversion.
The front mounting would , of course, require a reverser or I would risk inhaling snow down the chute and depositing it on the driveway. I had initially considered a a gear set-up but since I needed a chain drive from the PTO in any event, why not do it there.
Here's step one.
   
This is where the driveshaft meets the blower universal equipped drive.
I was lucky enough to have had a plow subframe on the tractor when I bought it.
   
Here's a pic of the blower and lift.
   
Today I bulit a plate to reinforce the chan drive. I don't want to suffer a breakdown during the shakedown in this winter's snow.
   
All the above blather to explain the point that I'm dismayed at the time it takes me to do things now, there had to be 5 Hrs. involved in figuring, making and installing that simple plate today.
If anyone can reassure me that it takes them similar times for similar jobs it would be a help .

[EdK]

That looks like a whole day job to me. Maybe two.

Ed

[DaveH]

(10-16-2012, 05:15 PM)EdK Wrote: That looks like a whole day job to me. Maybe two.

Ed

And me, ............. there again I would move to where it doesn't snow

DaveH

[stevec]

DaveH, not an option, I moved here to NS because my wife, since '98, had moved from Nova Scotia to Quebec and later Ontario with me. As mentioned before we both agree our next move will be to an URN.
Thanks for the support guys but I was only talking about making the outer support plate that looks like ski goggles.

[DaveH]

(10-16-2012, 05:56 PM)stevec Wrote: As mentioned before we both agree our next move will be to an URN.

Hopefully that will be a long long time.

DaveH

[sasquatch]

Steve , very nicely documented photos and text. Very enjoyable , thanks for posting this.