[AT] Weekend issues

[charlie hill]

If you want a good board for a ramp, ask your local lumber supplier for 
scaffold boards.
I doubt that lowes or HD have them but the regular wholesale lumber houses 
should.
By government spec they have to be free of knots and from the right part of 
the log
to be solid.  They won't be cheap.  Buy those if you can find them and if 
you want
them to really be good buy some 1 1/2 x 1 1/2 or 2 x 2 angle iron and bolt 
it along both edges
with one leg of the angle against the edges of the board and the other leg 
under the board.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Cecil Bearden
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2016 9:29 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Weekend issues

Sounds like the typical quality problems we endure these days. Cover the
bottom of those ramps with a 1/8 sheet of steel or aluminum and they
will hold together.   All the good lumber in the US is shipped
overseas.  We get the crap.  Those senders were probably made in China
or India.  Parts houses don't carry the fittings they used to.  Hardware
stores are the best bet on that now...

Cecil in Okla


On 9/19/2016 12:42 AM, Dennis Johnson wrote:
> All
>
> The last few days I have been hit with stupid little stuff.
>
> Borrowing my son's V10 Ram to haul some mowers to Okla. leaving 2 there 
> with someone and hauling my Hustler back after doing some mowing there.
>   V10 failed an oil pressure sender Wednesday near Ennis Tx. Changed it 
> out in parts store parking lot, which was not fun on hot engine. This 
> morning on the way to church the replacement sender also failed, putting a 
> small stream of oil out the electrical connection, just like the first one 
> did. Got replacement under warranty, but went to 6 places looking for 1/8 
> NPT 45 elbow and could not find. Want to move sensor so I can get a wrench 
> or sender socket on it. Finally found short nipple and coupling that 
> should move it away from block slightly. Tomorrow morning will try to 
> install the second sensor when engine is cool before I start it.
> Yesterday I snapped one of the blade spindle housings in two pieces on my 
> Hustler Fastrack SD mower. Was able to fine some replacement parts just 
> before store closed. Was able to finish mowing this afternoon.
> This weekend the 2 X 10 ramps I use to load mower failed near a knot hole. 
> Friday I got a new 2 X 10, and it snapped in two pieces on Saturday. 
> Yesterday got a second replacement on that also.
>
>
> Dennis
>
>
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