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Ahh, the rewarding feeling of hard labor and success.
hypernova:
$40 bucks for a 30 year old engine on a tiller that didn't work when you bought it? Man...that seems like a large amount of cash for a risky endeavor. At a flea market, no less...
So how many hours till you finally got it up and running? My guess is you got a bit lucky in not needing to buy any new parts to get it functional.
shardian:
--- Quote from: hypernova on April 19, 2009, 01:34:28 pm ---$40 bucks for a 30 year old engine on a tiller that didn't work when you bought it? Man...that seems like a large amount of cash for a risky endeavor. At a flea market, no less...
So how many hours till you finally got it up and running? My guess is you got a bit lucky in not needing to buy any new parts to get it functional.
--- End quote ---
It's not too much of a risk to buy a non-working Briggs and Stratton. I've heard of people buying 1930's era B&S engines that have sat out in the weather for 20+ years that get them running in no time. I wouldn't have bought it non-working with an off-brand engine.
I worked 3 hours or so on it - most of that was research. It's not like small engines are brain surgery.
Ed_McCarron:
I bought two Dreamcast controllers at a flea market today.
Whats that do to my carbon footprint?
shardian:
I get the feeling I'm not the only one who confuses pbj and Ark_ader sometimes by their posts. ;)
SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: shardian on April 19, 2009, 05:46:15 pm ---
--- Quote from: hypernova on April 19, 2009, 01:34:28 pm ---$40 bucks for a 30 year old engine on a tiller that didn't work when you bought it? Man...that seems like a large amount of cash for a risky endeavor. At a flea market, no less...
So how many hours till you finally got it up and running? My guess is you got a bit lucky in not needing to buy any new parts to get it functional.
--- End quote ---
It's not too much of a risk to buy a non-working Briggs and Stratton. I've heard of people buying 1930's era B&S engines that have sat out in the weather for 20+ years that get them running in no time. I wouldn't have bought it non-working with an off-brand engine.
--- End quote ---
Are B&S engines still good engines? It seems people don't feel that way about B&S engines anymore. I don't have a lot of experience with B&S motors. The first small engine tool I ever had the joy of working with is a 1990 era Honda motor on a snow blower. I liked how reliable it was so much that when my GF insisted on buying a mower to manage this hideous thing called a, "lawn," we went with a Honda mower. I'm not sure but I think her tiller is a Honda as well.
But I digress. When I worked at Home Depot, we got a lot of mowers returned. I don't really know if that's because 80% of all the mowers sold there are B&S and sold to complete ---smurfing--- morons so it's just a matter of playing the numbers game or if their complaint that B&S engines, "are crap," is a legitimate and valid complaint. eg, the post by daniel123 were what I usually heard when I worked there.
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