Recent content by Kyle_in_Tex

Mostly, one of my student worker's parents will help with the Hotter than Heck medical team. Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate. Be aware of heat stroke symptoms. Good sunblock will reflect the sun's energy.

Ken, yes all the kids are coming back to campus. Right now their parents are moving them in and walking the campus to see where their classes are. We have 17,000 new freshmen starting Monday. Our degree has 80+ newbies, which are sophomores starting. I make it a habit to introduce myself to...

Glad you got it going. Some carbs have a solenoid valve on the bottom to shut off flow in case of turn over. I have just taken them out and cut the little plunger, defeating their purpose on our flat land. You can get them on Amazon cheap if we are talking about the same thing. I looked and...

Lou, sorry and prayers for your ability to get around. My buddy bought his mom a portable O2 machine. She has bad allergies and some asthma. She uses it whenever she gets winded. Sure appreciate your advice here, I can tell it comes from years of experience.

So I had to order my son a new tennis racket. His old one finally broke. It was his sister's prior to him using it. We got it at the big garage sale by TxDon years ago. My daughter let a friend use it and he hit it on the net. It cracked 1 side of the hoop. It finally cracked the whole...

Here's the dead, weird shaped yellow jacket nest. Payback.

Went out and started to mow the section of land that I haven't cut for almost 2 years. Man was it tough to cut. Had to go maybe 3mph and manage the power by lifting the shredder deck up when it started killing the engine. 65 PTO Hp on a 6' shredder. Tough weeds I tell you. Come try it with...

I took mine apart at least a couple of years ago. I cleaned everything really good, lapped the important faces with fine sandpaper on a surface plate. I put it back together with 15W-50 mobil 1 because it is relatively cheap (and so am I). I put a new top seal on the prop shaft, used the...

Not sure what went wrong, but bad for me too.

Happy anniversary! Blasted the yellow jacket nest with Raid wasp spray. Killed them dead. Took son to practice tennis. He's trying to put too much "English" on his server. I can't get around much, but I can still hit the ball if not too far from me. We got a shower from the tropical...

Been busy at work. Still have a lot to do next week. Working on my Bush Hog today, I switched the 3pt framework over from our old cutter to the one I bought at the auction, except for the tail wheel. I'll probably have to do the tailwheel too later... Anyway, I got finished hooked up the...

As a machinist, when folks ask me to make something for them, I say "As long as it isn't brackets or hardware fasteners." Had 1 guy ask me to make him multiple custom stainless hinges for his ski boat's engine cover. When I told him it would take me a week or more to machine them from billet...

Wd not good for this application Drew. More of a water displacement lube. My favorite use for it is to remove the tar off of a car's lower fender when you have to drive over recently repaved tar and gravel roads. RIP, glad to see you still posting. Would love to hear more details of the...

I hope they sound as great as they did at the Woodlands Pavillion some years ago. Some great musicians. So sorry and prayers my friend. This is tough. At work, we have stuff in so many places, it is impossible to keep it in my memory. So I have my student workers look for something, I'll...

Ron, I hope everyone up there is staying indoors and/or wearing N95 masks. I would take my PAPR mask home if I had to deal with this.