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Ahh, the rewarding feeling of hard labor and success.

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ChadTower:

Actually, it sounds like all of the consumables are going, and he's having to replace them one by one.  Old belts dry up, strings degrade.  All part of rebuilding an old machine. 

shardian:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on June 01, 2009, 10:30:24 am ---Dude no offense but this tiller sounds like it was basically the worst purchase ever.



--- End quote ---

I may have to agree, because the string snapping kind of made me snap. Crap like that really can suck the motivation right out of you.

Once the recoil is fixed though, I can't think of any other problems that could present. Chad is right, all of my problems have been with standard maintenance, consumable problems. I will tackle the recoil this week, till up what I need, then put the tiller on the market.

shardian:
Here is a cel phone pic of the garden area. It is amazing how many gardens I have seen around the residential areas here. It seems almost every house has at least a small garden. One ultra tacky house in town replaced their flower garden out front with a garden. It looks totally silly to have tomato cages in front of your house in a flower garden.

ChadTower:

Dude... is that pic through a weird lens or did you really do all that rebuild work to till a few 10' lines of soil?   :o

DaOld Man:
I had an old B&S once that the recoil spring broke in it. Now this was when I was like a freshman in high school and had no extra spending money at all, so I couldnt buy a new spring.
I think I wound up removing the top part of the cover where the rope mechanism resides. I cut it off with a hacksaw.
I then rigged up a socket wrench that pretty much fit the shaft of the ratchet device (that tightens against the flywheel.)
I rigged the socket by cutting an old extension that fit the socket.
Put the extension in my hand drill and I had an an electric starter.
Just put the socket/drill on the ratchet thing and run until motor kicked off, then remove socket/drill.
Of course this only worked if I was near an outlet, because way back then we never heard of a cordless drill.
This might work for you. If you want to play around with it, try it with the cover removed before you cut off the rope thing.
Id hate to be the cause of you looking all over for a cover, of course, a used cover (if you can find one), would be a lot easy than rewinding the start cord.

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