[AT] OT- hour meter

[charlie hill]

Larry or you could do as I suspect I would have, throw away the Veermeer rip 
off battery unit and re-wire the thing with my own battery, hour meter and 
tach.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Larry Goss
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 10:42 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] OT- hour meter

FWIW, I have several hour-meter's on small engines, Mike.  One I have on a 
PK has been mounted to the instrument panel for 7 or 8 years, and still 
gives the rpm's and elapsed hours.  It's one of those $30 jobs that is sold 
through small engine repair shops, etc.  I had one on a Vermeer stump 
grinder that I bought at Home Depot when they were upgrading their rental 
units.  The battery went dead on it, so I contacted the Vermeer dealer to 
get a new battery (and for instructions for how to get the unit open). 
Answer -- the whole unit is designed as a throw-away.  When the battery goes 
dead, you buy a new tach/hour-meter.  If you go that route (El Cheapo model) 
be aware that there are two models available depending on whether your 
ignition is timed with a cam/magneto that only fires on the compression 
stroke, or if the plug fires on every crank revolution.

Larry

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike M" <meulenms at gmx.com>
To: "at" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:27:40 PM
Subject: [AT] OT- hour meter

Hi all,
I bought a new wood splitter the other day and would like to install a 
simple hour meter on it for maintenance tracking. I see some digital ones, 
but thats really fancier than I need and I question their durability. Any 
suggestions?
Thanks,
Mike M
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