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I recently did the seals on my 2002 BX2200 and it was the easiest job ever, especially with a 50 ton hydraulic press. Got pictures of it...

By the way, Replacing the rear axle turned out to be about an hour job, with no prior experience doing it, and that included draining...

Wow, you came back after 11 years to tell us how it went. (y)

I've been using PowerService grey bottle during the summer and white bottle during the winter in my 2002 BX2200 ever since the switch to...

I run a 60" rear blower on my BX2200. I keep the loader on to add weight and to do ice scraping and snow pile management. I found a neat...

My BX2200 can get hot if I'm doing heavy (mostly during the spring) mowing with the MMM. It's the only implement I see this happen on...

Since we're on the subject of threads, has there been a discussion on TBN about the origin of the metric sparkplug thread and Albert...

Olympus and Zeiss use RMS, I think Nikon, Leica, and Mitutoyo use metric. The Royal Microscopical Society (RMS) is a learned society...

Always looking for quality British standard tools - gauges, tapes & dies. Koken, Stahlwille, and Gedore are my go to for quality...

Very interesting. I would have thought metric would be go to unit, given Germany and Japan make the high end stuff, so is the Whitworth...

We use 55 degree Whitworth threads on microscope objective adapters .8 x36 tpi.

Thanks for Whitworth link. Fun to read through it again. My introduction to Whitworth was 45 years ago when family friend asked me to...

My first 10-speed bike ha some Whitworth fasteners on it.

Well, I was being facetious as I did indicate that I presumed 'the former' option of your being mischevious. ;) Nevertheless, SAE...

Where this should take the thread is towards the conclusion that you are either being mischievous ;) or that you have a poor...