What did you BREAK this week?

[JLinOK]

There's a What did you BUY this week? thread, so why not this?

I broke my 45 year old MIG welder.

I don't know. I found two relatively clean about 1/2" diameter ball bearings up around my equipment. I check my front wheels on my tractor and a couple of other pieces and could not find where they went. Pretty concerning.

 

[gstrom99]

I don't know. I found two relatively clean about 1/2" diameter ball bearings up around my equipment. I check my front wheels on my tractor and a couple of other pieces and could not find where they went. Pretty concerning.

Yes, finding those would keep me awake at night wondering where the heck...

 

[blacktruck]

I don't know. I found two relatively clean about 1/2" diameter ball bearings up around my equipment. I check my front wheels on my tractor and a couple of other pieces and could not find where they went. Pretty concerning.

That is probably a neighbor or friend just messing with you . I know a couple people that would see that and spend a lot of time looking for the errant bearing balls.

 

[sunandsand]

How about what I'm gonna break this week? with malice aforethought, too.

I'm afflicted with this Husqvarna riding mower with a Kohler Cowardace (they spell it "Courage" which is pretty presumptuous) engine, which I bought brand new in 2012, kept inside, maintained properly, used gently. It has 265 hours on it total. That's a whopping 20.4 hours a year.

It absolutely cannot make it ten hours between failures. Something is ALWAYS breaking, failing, leaking, falling off, (not including me, so far), you would simply not believe how unreliable and junky this thing is. I have owned 1960s vintage FIATs that were more reliable than this thing.

Yesterday it decided to surge wildly although it runs OK at full throttle. I know that all it needs (this time) is to have the carb cleaned out, but I am sick and tired of nannying this constantly decaying pile of mechanical garbage.

This coming week I am going out to buy a zero-turn, again new.

Now . . . I am open to suggestions from everyone here as to how best to utterly and totally destroy/demolish/obliterate this thing off the face of the earth. Any suggestions, up to and including nuclear weapons, are welcome. There's a railroad main line about 1,000 feet east of me, so that's a possibility, but I want to make totally sure this thing is DONE. Forever.

Best Regards,
Mike/Florida

 

[Eagle1]

How about what I'm gonna break this week? with malice aforethought, too.

I'm afflicted with this Husqvarna riding mower with a Kohler Cowardace (they spell it "Courage" which is pretty presumptuous) engine, which I bought brand new in 2012, kept inside, maintained properly, used gently. It has 265 hours on it total. That's a whopping 20.4 hours a year.

It absolutely cannot make it ten hours between failures. Something is ALWAYS breaking, failing, leaking, falling off, (not including me, so far), you would simply not believe how unreliable and junky this thing is. I have owned 1960s vintage FIATs that were more reliable than this thing.

Yesterday it decided to surge wildly although it runs OK at full throttle. I know that all it needs (this time) is to have the carb cleaned out, but I am sick and tired of nannying this constantly decaying pile of mechanical garbage.

This coming week I am going out to buy a zero-turn, again new.

Now . . . I am open to suggestions from everyone here as to how best to utterly and totally destroy/demolish/obliterate this thing off the face of the earth. Any suggestions, up to and including nuclear weapons, are welcome. There's a railroad main line about 1,000 feet east of me, so that's a possibility, but I want to make totally sure this thing is DONE. Forever.

Best Regards,
Mike/Florida

Have any neighbors/family member you don't like? A gift may be in order.

 

[joea99]

I don’t believe in witchcraft, mind reading, Voodoo or curses but this thread might be a curse. I bent my top link today. I have Pats on the bottom and disconnected them but forgot the top link. My ballast box tipped over. The box tipped over and bent the top link, new one a little less than $40. I had an old one that I took the threaded end out to use but it was the wrong thread direction.
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Looks like a thread or two munged up as well..

 

[joea99]

Nothing broken this week. But I did discover just how short lived the battery charge is on my DeWalt blower. And then I discovered how much a second battery costs.

Many may not like this, but I have found "after market" battery packs much cheaper and just as "reliable". So far. Fairly light usage. EbaZon has many flavors.

 

[dodge man]

Looks like a thread or two munged up as well..

I think the funny looking threads are suppose to be that way, it lets you know when it’s unscrewed most of the way.

 

[Spanner]

Broke my laptop.

 

[Oz_Kioti]

My always reliable and dependable Stihl 026C (the C means it has a decompression button) wouldn't start yesterday just when I needed it to clear a fallen tree over a fence. I last gave it a good workout a month or so back cutting rounds of hardwood firewood.

OK - gotta be fuel or spark! I'd just topped up the fuel, so decided to check the plug. Air filter looked reasonably clean, since I regularly brush it clean, so I undid the two retaining screws which hold the (aftermarket) air filter to the carby, then applied gentle pressure to pull air filter off the compensator tube. In doing so, it partially split the filter in half (the way they're built) and I noticed dirt and crap on the inside!

Aha, I thought, carby full of crap. But since I'm here, I'll check the plug anyway. It was quite wet and oily, so replaced it, then pulled the starter to see if it would start. Well, it did.

So I don't plan on sticking with those cheap aftermarket air filters after this, and will stump up for the genuine article. But I will source a carby rebuild kit anyway. After 25 years or so, it's probably time!