Good morning!!!!

[300UGUY]

Absolutely beautiful day here, high 70's and a bit of a breeze. We get a couple weeks of this a year, or so it seems. My neighbor was talking about firewood yesterday....

 

[txdon]

txdon . I am sure you have been giving your wife lots of TLC after the accident. I think it's a good sign when she no longer wants you to do everything and wants to find ways of doing them for herself.

My granddad lost his hand and arm in WW1. As a child I delighted in trying to do everything with one hand, just like him, though I could never manage to tie my shoe laces like he could. The only concession to this handicap that I can remember him using regularly, was for eating food. It is sometimes hard to cut food with a knife when you can't hold it in place with a fork at the same time. He used a cheeseboard style knife, with a sharp curved blade, so the cutting action was always downwards against his plate while he rolled the cutting edge on top.

This guy cut's like she does at about 50 seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynWjV5qJXuM

The ordered cutting board with pivotal knife, holding nails, and a raised corner should help a lot.

 

[KevT]

Wow Don, sorry to hear about your wife!!! Got me thinking maybe we shouldn't go on vacation any more. While Lori and I were in Ohio learning to drive horses, she slipped in horse poop and wrenched her knee, She goes in for surgery next week. I will admit the shinning star to this is her trading her little car (old fat guys don't like little cars) for a new pick-up. And now I do all the feeding of animals and when she asks if I gave her horse a kiss, I just say yes Dear (NOT A CHANCE IN !!!!), and tried cooking, but she won't sit for that, so I help. The hard part is that we live on a 2nd story...

Anyway, I hope your Better Half heals quickly

Eric - I got Lucky, my wife wanted this new cookbook for her BD, and I reap the great food that will come out of it :thumbsup:

 

[Depmandog]

Picked up a new steering spindle, but still haven't figured how to "shrink" the hub so that the bearing will fit tight. The guy at the John Deere parts counter said to just buy a new wheel for $88 but I said I hadn't given up, but might be back.

https://tds.us.henkel.com/NA/UT/HNAUTTDS.nsf/web/29FD0B44C6E02909882571870000D85E/$File/641-EN.pdf

Some research has led me to the Loctite 641 as the product that should cure your woes. If the clearance is excessive, knurling or symmetrically punching a row divots will raise enough metal that with the addition of the Loctite should solve your problem.

Good luck!!

 

[wngsprd]

Thanks for the recommendations Depmandog and RNG...I thought about the welding bead, but don't have any welding equipment.

I was in a rush to try to fix it this morning before having to go to town for an appointment - if I failed, I would pick up a new wheel. So I did just what you suggested - I punched a series of divots around the edge and then the bearing was really hard to get into place - nice and tight. I installed the new spindle and repaired wheel and had about 1 minute left to take it for a test drive. When I got home I mowed for about 15 minutes before the heavens opened up and I dashed for cover. So now I need to take the wheel back off and see if the bearing is still tight.

I wish I had seen your ideas about Loctite before I went to town. I have to go back tomorrow, so think I will pick some up, and maybe pop the bearing back out if it seems any bit loose.

 

[wngsprd]

Since it's too wet to mow, and since I stare at my splitter everytime I get on my mower, I decided to try to start it up this evening...I almost couldn't get started last fall until I used your great suggestion of SeaFoam. I hadn't run it since early spring, but had run it dry, and used the SeaFoam.

Well, good news - 2nd pull did the trick. It felt good running the wedge back and forth a few times. Bring on the cold weather.

 

[farmer2009]

great idea, thanks. and all natural too. I'm sure you use Kosher sea salt... actually I wonder where your salt comes from. Utah? overseas? And if you were the bragging sort, you could say your salt came from the Bonneville Flats. The salt with zoom.

LOL. Nope just plain old NaCl. It's a livestock grade rock salt. It is a USA product according to the bag. Company out of Kansas.

 

[Larro Darro]

Six hours in the garden today, {it was from can see to can't see} but with a long river break in between to carry grand niece swimming. When I broke out my lawn chair and rod and reel, she stopped swimming and got the other reel. There were too many swimmers down there to do any good, but her casting improved as she did it more.



All but one of the cucumber plants I transplanted last week got burned up. I wasn't taking any chances with the ones I did today. They got watered four ways. By hand, with soaker hoses, sprinkler and thunderstorm.



Don, hope your wife heals quickly. There must be something about vacation injuries. Last summer Sister tripped going out the door to a junk shop on Panama City Beach and broke her wrist.

 

[300UGUY]

https://tds.us.henkel.com/NA/UT/HNAUTTDS.nsf/web/29FD0B44C6E02909882571870000D85E/$File/641-EN.pdf

Some research has led me to the Loctite 641 as the product that should cure your woes. If the clearance is excessive, knurling or symmetrically punching a row divots will raise enough metal that with the addition of the Loctite should solve your problem.

Good luck!!

Loctite, used properly, can be like magic in a tube!

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 77F this morning and sunny, light breeze. 98F for temp, 104 for HI, clouded up for couple of hours then cleared again. got the screens back today and rehung, SWMBO very happy. Got mowing and window cleaning tomorrow.