From: muratlanne@gmail.com   
      
   "Snag"  wrote in message news:1049cik$htup$1@dont-email.me...   
      
   On 7/4/2025 1:25 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:   
      
   > Here I am in the shop finishing second operations of a stack of molds so I   
   > can get them shipped.  Gravity cast lead molds, but one interesting soft   
   > plastic mold I can't show anybody.   
   >   
      I did a little weed eatin' this morning . Needed a trimmed place for   
   the new tractor , since I'm about to tear into the front axle . Wore out   
   bearings and leaking seals , I'll get it apart then order parts ...   
      And while waiting for those parts I'll do some work on the JD 317 .   
   It's got about 43 years of "stuff" sloshing around in the fuel tank and   
   frequently blocking the fuel supply . Two or nine other things that need   
   doing , we'll see which ones make the list .   
   Snag   
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   Made a tool to disassemble the sink spray head in my shower. It's a   
   relatively expensive nickeled one that seems out of stock or discontinued   
   now. The valve spindle sticks open in hot water. The tool is a plug half   
   knurled and half threaded 1" - 1.5mm (??) that depresses the spindle against   
   its stiff spring until the handle can be unhooked. No O ring in HF's metric   
   kit fit but one from their inch kit restored it like new. Synthetic brake   
   grease (high-melting) initially loosened the original O ring but then   
   swelled it.   
      
   Greased the front end of my garden tractor, perhaps for the first time in   
   15 - 20 years. It's from backwoods Maine where the Sears service seems to   
   have been a bit lacking. Hacked and hoisted out a surface root the mower   
   deck was catching on the trail to a woodshed.   
      
   Splitting firewood, only Oct & Nov left for 25/26. First in, last out.   
   Rebuilding that worn-out splitter in ~1999 taught me about hydraulics. In   
   effect the splitter was free, I think the $200 was for its new but defective   
   Tecumseh engine which IIRC $3 fixed. I bought it from a pawn shop and second   
   hand dealer who knew values. He gave me some deals in exchange for listening   
   to his stories.   
   jsw   
      
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