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    Good morning!!!!

    Don't underestimate that vinegar Wyan it'll eat up metal if you leave it in the bath too long. A couple of weeks ago I walked over to put something in my bucket to clean it up and lo-and behold I'd forgotten about a set of old hinges I'd laid in there. What's left of them will go for weight...
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    Good morning!!!!

    Old wives tale, the higher the wasps build their nest forecasts the coming snowfall for the winter. Funny story (true), one of our locals known as a character was having a favorite drink of his on his porch one evening. He kept having some wasps buzzing him. And it was really getting him mad. So...
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    Good morning!!!!

    Ryan, Try vinegar with your metal rather than that nasty muriatic acid stuff. It works a little slower but it's a lot safer to play with and no hazardous waste to deal with. Just wash it off in fresh warm water (with your bare hands!) using a fine wire brush or whatever.
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    Impurities in the metal?

    Has anyone else here run into this? Your welding along and everything is going swimmingly, then you run into something in the metal that flashes so bright that you can't see past it even on the darkest helmet settings. It's so bright that by the time you feel your way through it you're seeing...
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    odd ramblings

    Going (crawling over) my new-to-me tc30 this weekend odd thoughts and ruminations. Well I wanted something bigger, but that idea went out the window when I realized a bigger tractor wouldn't fit in most of the places this tractor needs to work. So the 30 is just the right size if somewhat...
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    still looking

    Yeah, still looking/waiting for manuals for my 'new'/old tc30.....thats mean while I'd like to do some work.....which means I'm not willing to do any heavy stuff till I've throughly checked and brought this machine up to speed. Does anyone have the torque specs for the FEL mounting frame bolts...
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    new member

    Just bought a tc30 (used) to replace my poor old worn out 70's era dl225 Kubota. The Kubota served me well, I bought it used and the first 10 years after I got it home the thing rarely stopped doing something or another every day and during snow season that days work could stretch to 16 hours or...
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