[AT] I guess my sense of humor has timed out...

[szabelski at wildblue.net]

You don’t have to spend $50 for a $3 seal. Just spend $20,000+++ for a new unit.😜

Just replaced the drain pump on the wife’s washer. $105 for a plastic housing that holds an assembly consisting of two coils and a rotating magnetic core that drives a plastic impeller.  There is a second pump that’s used for recycling the water as a conservation effort, which we never used. Figured I’d just swap the pumps, but that’s not possible. They rotated the contacts on the connector and made the recycle pump a little shorter, so I couldn’t swap the pump housings and mounts. Easier to buy the new pump then to start jerry rigging things.

Carl


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From: k7jdj at aol.com
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Sent: Thu, 09 Jul 2020 15:08:21 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: [AT] I guess my sense of humor has timed out...


Speaking of $3 coils anyone bought seals lately. Seals that use to cost $ 3-4 are now $50 or more!

Gary

Renton, Wa.

On Thursday, July 9, 2020 Indiana Robinson <at at lists.antique-tractor.com> wrote:


My Ferguson TO-20 has been acting up and I cleaned the carb just in case but it was clean inside. Actually the first thing I did was clean the sediment bowl. Well, I tried but the pot metal housing virtually came apart in my hands so I bought a new one and put it on. I had doubts about the coil maybe breaking down after heating up but thought that I would start with the fuel system and just check everything as I go. The thing needs rewiring all over just from age and PO cobbling but I've been putting it off. I am short a couple of coils anyway so I went to pick one up. This tractor has an old (and and unimpressive) 12 volt conversion so I was looking for a 12 volt coil with internal resistor. OK, Rural King had an empty hook that probably held them at one time but no go. Today we stopped at the local O'reillys to pick one up. They are nice folks and always helpful. I told the guy what I wanted and he wrote it down and went to get help... Now I am so old that I tend to forget that most folks behind the counter are used to looking up parts for stuff that is less than 10 years old and my old crap is pretty alien to them.
When I told him what I wanted I quipped that I wanted one of the $3 coils...   :-)   (I remember buying $3 coils)  I just happened to overhear him telling the "crowd" of 3 other people who were helping him look that he could not find a $3 coil...   :-)  I had to explain that I was joking about the price... (Rural King gets about $23 out of coils).
When the dust settled I had a 12 volt coil that said "Use with external resistor" for about $19 and counted myself lucky...  :-)  I have several new external resistors hanging on a hook in the shop and I will use one of those.
I need to be careful joking with people more than 2 generations away from my age group. 




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Central Indiana USA
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