I'd like to say it was my idea but it wasn't. My cousin thought of it. Alan
Please click on: http://www.home.earthlink.net/~alanandsuzanne/ There, you'll find files of my arrangements and performances played on the Yamaha Tyros keyboard. I often add files so check back regularly! The albums in Technics format formerly on my website are still available upon request. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don" <n5...@yahoo.com> To: <blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2010 8:20 AM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Tacumseh engine carbeurator question > Hey Alan, great story, thanks for sending it along. Always thought back > in the day, I would have liked to do this, as a side job. talk later. > > > > From: Alan Paganelli > Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2010 9:43 AM > To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com > Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Tacumseh engine carbeurator question > > > > I never liked B&S and the rest of the American engines. Not a baring or a > bushing in there. Just a hardened steal crankshaft rubbing against an > aluminum block. How the hell long do you think that's 'gonna last. Now you > know why those things are going away. The bright-boys figured themselves > right out of business. > > When I went through the course, it cost around 40 bucks to get a small > engine tuned up. You had 5 dollars worth of parts into it so you did about > an hours work if you wanted to do the thing right and walked away with $35 > for your trouble. You could the job out of your garage and if you couldn't > make at least 200 that weekend, you weren't trying very hard. And, for a > totally blind person it's all done by feel. As it turned out, the guy who > was teaching the course at Perdue was a guy who played bass with us when I > was on the road. When I met him at the class, we both asked each other > what > the hell are you doing here! I said I'm here for the course. Whatta you > here for? I'm here to teach it. He said he had been doing this all his > life working at his old man's shop sense he was a kid. I wondered why the > school never gave me any crap about the old blind people can't work on > small > engines. Don wouldn't have stood still for it. > > After I took and passed the course, my brother in law decided he wanted to > take it as well and asked me to go with him to kind of pave the way for > him. > I said sure. Why not. When we walked in the place, the class was twice the > size of the one I was in. Don said I'm glad your here. I need you to help > me teach these guys. Are you nuts Don? I just passed the course 2 weeks > ago. Oh don't worry about anything. Here's what we're gonna do. We'll > split the class in half. I'll take half and you take the other half. I'll > be doing the teaching with my half. You show your guys the same thing I'm > showing my guys. I'll still be walking around helping people who need it > so > you'll be fine and think of it this way. We learn by doing and by doing it > all over again, it'll make you better at it. So, after taking the course, > I > wound up teaching it 2 weeks later. When Don introduced me to the class he > said this guy was on the road with us. He might be totally blind but he > knows his business. He is a graduate of this course and so, he'll be the > assistant instructor. To my surprise, nobody thought anything about me > being blind and some students insisted on calling me prof. Pretty weird! > > Alan > > Please click on: http://www.home.earthlink.net/~alanandsuzanne/ > There, you'll find files of my arrangements and performances played on > the Yamaha Tyros keyboard. I often add files so check back regularly! > > The albums in Technics format formerly on my website are still > available upon request. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dale Leavens" <dleav...@puc.net> > To: <blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 10:21 PM > Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Tacumseh engine carbeurator question > >> Well therein lies the problem. I don't have a dealer that I know of >> anywhere near here. >> >> It is my understanding that they have about discontinued making Tecumseh >> engines altogether although there are loads of sources of parts. >> >> I don't much like the chipper either but neither do I like the price of >> new replacements. I wouldn't care that much but I do have about 80 feet >> of >> privet hedge which gets trimmed a couple of times a year and this year I >> cut it down to about knee height and cut out a load of old trunks so the >> hedge will renew itself. I might be able to burn the debris along with >> the >> pruning from my rose bushes but it is nice to chip it up and make compost >> or mulch. I get about a yard of compost every year between grass >> clippings, kitchen waste and other garden waste like hedge trimmings. >> >> While the town used to take stuff like that away they no longer do. I >> suppose they would if I bundled it and moved it out a bag at a time but >> that would take weeks and loads more work than feeding it to the chipper >> and that is a lot more fun anyway. >> >> I have Honda engines on my lawn mower and my plate compactor. They do >> behave wonderfully well. >> >> Thanks. >> >> Dale Leavens. >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Alan Paganelli >> To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com >> Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2010 12:13 AM >> Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Tacumseh engine carbeurator question >> >> >> >> As luck would have it, I went to small engine school in 1980 and worked >> on >> both Brigs and Stratton and Tacumseh3.5 horsepower engines. It sounds >> like >> you've got a real old engine. They've just about wiped out all the small >> engine guys. Everything on the new stuff is throw-away. I talked to one >> of >> the engineers who designs these things for Tecumseh. He told me his job >> wasn't to make a better engine but rather to figure out ways to make the >> engine do what it needs to do and to make it do it cheaper. So, on to >> your >> problem and knock of the wining. >> >> The part is called a needle valve. It attaches to a clip that lowers into >> the fuel flow closing it off. I would suggest pulling the carburetor off >> and taking it with you to your dealer so they can get the part number off >> it >> and just buy a rebuild kit. You will also need to replace the gasket that >> goes between the engine body and the carburetor. >> >> Alan >> >> Please click on: http://www.home.earthlink.net/~alanandsuzanne/ >> There, you'll find files of my arrangements and performances played on >> the Yamaha Tyros keyboard. I often add files so check back regularly! >> >> The albums in Technics format formerly on my website are still >> available upon request. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Dale Leavens" <dleav...@puc.net> >> To: <blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com> >> Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 6:43 PM >> Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Tacumseh engine carbeurator question >> >> > Good evening, >> > >> > I have a wood chipper and leaf shredder powered by a horizontal four >> > stroke Tecumseh engine. The damn engine has given me a lot of grief >> over >> > the years, trouble starting after periods of inactivity. Oddly, this >> year >> > it has behaved fairly well. Then it began leaking fuel around the top >> of >> > the sediment bowl. The problem appears to be the little pin like valve >> > arrangement which should close off the fuel flow when the float raises >> and >> > pushes the little beggar into the orifice. Well I disassembled it, >> there >> > is a little spring clip which I was trying to figure out where it >> connects >> > when I lost the little pin like valve closer in the grass. >> > >> > I need to know what this little bad boy is called so I can see if I can >> > chase down a new one. >> > >> > It is a 6 or 8 sided pin about half an inch long I suppose beveled to a >> > point at one end and with a ring milled out very near the other end >> where >> > this little spring wire clip snaps onto it. It sits on top of the float >> > so, when the float is up it pushes firmly into the fuel port from the >> fuel >> > tank. >> > >> > Those of you with mechanical training may know what this little device >> is >> > called. >> > >> > Thanks for this. >> > >> > Dale leavens. >> > >> > >> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >> > >> > >> > >> > ------------------------------------ >> > >> > Send any questions regarding list management to: >> > blindhandyman-ow...@yahoogroups.com >> > To listen to the show archives go to link >> > >> http://www.acbradio.org/pweb/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=33&MMN_position=47:29 >> > Or >> > ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ >> > >> > The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. >> > http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday >> > >> > Visit the archives page at the following address >> > http://www.mail-archive.com/blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com/ >> > >> > For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man >> > list just send a blank message to: >> > blindhandyman-h...@yahoogroups.comyahoo! 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