[AT] OT: Rosebuds! The oxi-acetylene kind...

[Ron Cook]

Well, that is exactly what I was thinking.  Just haven't posted it. I 
read the article.  Thought it was clever.  Silly Power Horse will do 
nothing anyway, like Mike says.

My rosebud works.  I used it this afternoon to heat a casting a little 
to be able to remove a pipe thread fitting.  I am probably set at 20 and 
10, or whatever I was set at last.  Didn't check. Just lit the torch, 
adjusted for neutral, and did the job.

Ron Cook
Salix, IA
On 11/15/2013 9:57 PM, Mike wrote:
> Bottom line is the guy with the Power Horse had a rusted tight
> transmission and was able to free it using charcoal briquets.
> Before...tractor inoperable, after...operable. I can't argue with the
> heat treatment issues because I know absolutely nothing about that. I
> highly doubt that it will affect the tractors ability to putt around a
> tractor show, or go in a parade, which is all this tractor will do
> anymore. I've known some really excellent "farm mechanics" who know how
> to get a tractor fixed and back into the field. Did they use the
> approved method as called for in the John Deere, Case IH, etc manual,
> probably not, but it worked and they where back in the field.
> Mike M
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