> There are priorities, like right now, my mower deck is laying on a work > table, trying to get the belt paths re-aligned so it doesn't throw the
Well, what I did was to pop into a nearby Walmart and plunk down $859 for a new MTD on sale. That was about 2002 and it's still going. Carb needs rebuilding because the float valve doesn't shut off, stuck in a manual shutoff valve. Replaced a starter motor. Other than that just belts, blades and batteries, still has the original spark plug I think. > suspension linkage. That made 2 hours worth of work twisting the nuts > to break the weld so I could actually drop the deck. Should have been > about a minute on each side. Once on the table it was hours with a 4 lb > hammer trying to reshape the deck to something it might have looked like > before 20 years worth of rust weakened it, make new means of anchoring Made me wonder if it was a Wheel Horse, but nope, John Deere. > By the time mine fall out of the mailbox, maybe things will have > improved, said the lab rat hopefully. That will be in the vicinity of 2 > weeks, maybe more. It sounds like a good winter project if you can't use your lathe in the winter. I was studying XLib, just popped back into it and have the beginnings of an SDR program without any fancy bloated dependencies. No QT, Java, framebuffer, GPU. http://ab1jx.1apps.com/pix/misc2/xsdr_hotiron1.png I'm overloading my dongle I think, that's why all the crap's in there. And all the signals breathe. But wow, moving pixels under X, never did that before. -- ------------- No, I won't call it "climate change", do you have a "reality problem"? - AB1JX Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach
