[AT] Dead short...

[Mattias Kessén]

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Den tors 27 aug. 2020 20:47Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com> skrev:

> First it's good to hear folks piping up that they are OK. I do try to keep
> up.
> Made the hard decision to skip Portland this year. I'm also skipping a
> huge Amish consignment auction that we normally attend twice a year. They
> canceled the spring one but are having the fall sale. I love their sale and
> they do a great job with it but... Diana and I are both high risk and a
> "LOT" of people normally attend. One year my bid number was above 2,500.
> It's a mixed crowd, most are just good folks that love sales. Sadly being a
> large crowd means more people that you would avoid if you could.  :-)  Some
> are clueless, some are just thoughtless and a very small number but way too
> many are just rude jerks. Those would crowd in and bully people and
> intentionally cough in folks faces or about anything else to make trouble.
> That is just who they are. I just don't have time to sit in jail for
> clubbing someone with a PTO shaft... As much as I love those sales they are
> the only sales where I have had stuff stolen before I could move it. I have
> a good idea who they are but can't prove anything. There are a few guys
> that when you buy some things and sit them aside to load those guys will
> start looking in boxes etc. that others have bought. They also spend a lot
> of time looking around them and you rarely see them bidding on anything.
> Oh, well.
> *
> About that dead short... My little VAC Case was getting hard to start. It
> would fire and run OK but barely turn over. Sometimes it would kick in and
> spin fine. "AFTER CHECKING THE GROUNDS"  :-)  and load testing the battery
> I decided that it was the big push button starter switch sticking out of
> the dash in that awkward spot behind the steering column. Picked up a new
> one from Rural King for about $15.
> Pulled the battery and cleaned up the battery box. I painted the switch
> (only new paint on the tractor) and the screws for it and painted the floor
> of the battery box. I put the new switch in and did minor repairs on the
> battery cables etc.
> Went to install the ground cable (+ ground, still 6 volts) and got a big
> old spark... Yes I did jump a bit.  :-)  Went back over everything I did
> which didn't take long, this thing is pretty basic. Had to be the new
> switch... Pulled it and tested it, yep, one  post was a dead short to the
> switch shell. I didn't want to take it back, some idiot there would have
> probably said I voided the warranty by painting it.  :-)  You can unfold
> the 4 little bent tabs and open those. In fact you can open them and rotate
> the contact bolts a half turn to extend their use. When I opened it I could
> see the problem. The thin bolt head/contact on one bolt had rotated as it
> was tightened and its sharp corner had punctured the thin fiber insulator
> that lined the body of the switch. It had sharp corners because the heads
> of the bolts are quite thin compared to the older ones (Surprise).
> I got it back in proper position and filed grooves in the outer end of
> both bolts so I could tell if they stayed in alignment as I installed the
> cables to it. I also added a bit of insulation to the punctured area. Spins
> over like a new one.
> Another simple 20 minute job completed in only about 3 or 4 hours... That
> is my life now.  :-)  :-)  :-)
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> Francis Robinson
> aka "farmer"
> Central Indiana USA
> robinson46176 at gmail.com
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