[AT] Reconditioning Leather belting

[Mike Sloane]

I had to replace the cooling fins on the flywheel of a Tecumseh tiller 
engine. The instructions said to boil the Nylon assembly in water and 
then immediately put it on to the flywheel before it cooled off and 
stiffened up. Fortunately, I have my own set of stainless steel pans 
steam table that I saved from the dumpster a few years back. Early one 
Sunday morning, before anyone was up, I covered half the range with 
newspaper, set some water boiling in a large pan with the flywheel right 
next to it on the paper. When I had the fin assembly boiling hot, I 
fished it out of the pan with a pair of adjustable pliers and popped it 
onto the flywheel. Then I carefully cleaned up all traces of my work and 
took all the evidence out to the barn. I didn't even take any pictures 
of my work - no sense leaving incriminating evidence to be discovered 
later...

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Mike

On 1/17/2012 4:58 PM, charlie hill wrote:
>
> I used an enameled broiler pan to clean a Zenith Carb once.   I cleaned it
> as clean as a clean gets afterwards but she never used it again.  Luckily it
> wasn't something she was fond of.
>
> Charlie