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<p>Another simple 20 minute job completed in only about 3 or 4
hours... That is my life now. :-) :-) :-)</p>
<p>That pretty much describes anything I do around here. Start a job
and immediately find that I don't have the tool I need. Go to town
and buy one and finish the job, Two days later, I find the old
tool that I knew I had, but couldn't find. The story of my life.</p>
<p>Phil in TX<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/27/2020 1:46 PM, Indiana Robinson
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<div dir="ltr">First it's good to hear folks piping up that they
are OK. I do try to keep up.
<div>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.</div>
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<div>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.</div>
<div>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. </div>
<div>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).</div>
<div>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.</div>
<div>Another simple 20 minute job completed in only about 3 or 4
hours... That is my life now. :-) :-) :-)<br clear="all">
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Francis Robinson<br>
aka "farmer"<br>
Central Indiana USA<br>
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