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Could be worse Kevin, Just wait until it's time for your check up after your 50th birthday.

I have a cheapo Campbell Hausfield sandblaster my neighbor gave me years ago that I've never used. Today, I made a duct tape and cardboard blasting cabinet. It worked like a charm, or at least long enough to strip the nasty, rusty wheels on the snowblower I'm restoring. The best part is, I'm pretty happy with the way most of the "cabinet" turned out. So now I can break down the cardboard, lay it flat and have a decent template for a real blasting cabinet. Redneck engineering at its finest. My Dad taught me well.

The best coffee is a nice cup of tea! I had a colonoscopy a few years ago. The procedure was easy, the pre cleansing was bloody terrible. I genuinely thought I was going to turn inside out.

Vintage K-90, model N, thing was one big ball of varnish... both inside and out!

Horse power and torque Onan Wisconsin Kohler All working the gears

Ahhh 50 - First you realize that you're a half century old, you go to the mail box & find your invite to join AARP, and then doctors wanna probe you. It just can't get any better than that, can it??

I hear ya Chris.... picked a 1077 up once and the seller said he cleaned the carb. Turns out his "carb cleaning" consisted of pulling out the main jet needle and blowing air down thru it! Alrighty then

I really can't think of a better way to spend a day

YIKES

Beans cut... test and tune? time’s running out pretty fast Winsconsin calls soon.

Hi all so I just got my pump back from now and then complete rebuild it was only a couple of dollars more than kit plus shipping fee

I wonder sometimes Do you occasionally Speak to friends haiku

You guys got wwwwaaayyyy too much time on yer hands ..... ain't you got a plow day to get ready for?!?!

Horsepower is how fast you can hit the wall. Torque is how far you can push it.

I asked my Trina something along that line at one point. Her response was (paraphrased). "I know how to buy more paint".

Some really pretty Wheel Horses ...BUT to paraphrase Donald Sutherland.... Can they work??

All shined up ready for a new owner 😉 only 20 hours . Looking for trades

This year has been great, a pair of knees, a pair of hearing aids, a pair of dental implants and just today scheduled for a pair of eyeballs. Not joking except the eyeballs are cataract surgery.

They just measured my height weight and waist and I thought his procedure was bad enough!

When i‘m younger so about 20 all doctors tells me, if you drink further that much of Coffee, you didn‘t survive you 40iest. now i‘m over 50 and my coffee consume is still the same as with 20. that say‘s me only one thing..... I have urgently to destress my Life.. 😎 nobody say‘s something about my coffee consum.

Perhaps it is a Peerless 1400 transmission. Used in the 800 Special model 1-0150 and the A-90 Special model 2-4300. Get down and look up under the dash housing for an ID plate. Garry

I've done a couple of cleanses which is exactly the same thing as the prep for the colonoscopy. I found that to be tolerable for the most part as long as you're not more than about 20 ft away from the lavatory facilities. What I'm not particularly looking forward to is being half knocked out during the procedure itself. I turn 50 in December so it's going to be sometime in the next two to four months that I go have that amount of fun...

Chiming in to get my learn on. Haven't encountered one of these transmissions in a

So much better. Lunch time I finished a turkey club with jalapeños, onion rings and half of my wife’s “thanksgiving on a bun” meal! Only had room for a cookie killer with marshmallow sauce on top.

Both finances and wisdom... out of reach for a while?

I would not mind if someday I had the finances to purchase something like that and the wisdom not to do so

You may be larger now than you were earlier in your life but I don't believe for a sweet second that you ever GREW UP any more than I did..

Occasionaly But only among nice folk Like here on Red Square

In drag race terms, torque makes acceleration, horsepower makes top speed. A Buick 455 will come off the line harder than a Buick 3.8L turbo V6, but the turbo car will likely have a higher speed through the traps. In tractor terms, torque is more important for ground engaging chores, and horse power is more important for PTO work. In engineering terms, torque is force times the radius of rotation. Horsepower is a unit of work, which is force times distance divided by time.

I'd need someone to follow me around to help me out of that thing...

What Does Horsepower Get You? When I was a kid it got me lots of speeding tickets.

Now that’s a sensible family car...

'Bought ready to for the over spray Madge but see the tape now........

I like to call things like that "redneck ingenuity"! Many might think that term comes across as negative, but not in my book. Being resourceful and working with that you have is what people have been doing since the caveman days. If you think of something, make it, and it functions as intended, it certainly isn't stupid.

I’ll verify the wiring Saturday and pull the engine number. I’m going to take the car to go look instead of the truck and trailer..that way I’m less tempted to buy it right away lol

I'm sayin that's a right absolute slick idea there. Stupid? Nope. I drive for a living. I see stupid every day. What you pulled off is straight up unconventional brilliant. I would'na thought of it. I would'na tried it. And I'm impressed you done it.

To answer your question - No. Most brilliant ideas and / or the people that had them were called “stupid” or some variation on the theme... then after it worked they were “geniuses”... Great idea and excellent thinking... Maybe just keep it... use it when you need it, fold it up for next time... Rims look great too!

what type and what color paint did you use?Just painted some wheels for my c-160 that was rustoleum canvas white that I really liked.Just curious what you used...

Digging the red with ivory accents thing!

You didnt miss a thing. I never mentioned it. Well it was going to be red/white with a bit of silver. BUT the wife changed my plan. It's looking like ivory with red accents and a bit of silver

Jack up the hat and roll a new @lynnmor under it! Straight from the factory!

I see a fork there.Hardly " clean enough you could eat off it ".As far as the rear end......un-explained phenomenom.Probably a one-off expermental Horse and worth a fortune??Haha.

Kevin, is it possible that you might be a redneck?

With any luck, maybe somebody here can find a copy of the Paul Revere Wheel Horse ad and you can recreate the look. I probably have a copy, but the chances of me finding it are pretty negligible. steve

Plus the exhaust adds fertilizer.

I can answer this real simply - STROKE Kohler 8HP K181 - 2.938" bore by 2.75" stroke Kohler Command Pro 9HP - 3.1" bore by 2.3" stroke. A longer stroke puts the crank pin further away from the center of the crank. This allows for more torque to turn the crank around when the cylinder fires. Same theory as grabbing a longer wrench so that you can get a rusty bolt loose.

Was hoping this might bring up some memories for folks, as that is quite a common reaction when the old Colemans are brought up. Growing up in upstate NY, I remember a lot of bullhead fishing with my stepdad, holding lanterns while he ran the net when the smelt were running, and him leaving one lit at the cottage so I could fall asleep to the hiss. Kinda forgot about them til seeing one in an antique shop about 5-6 years ago. ......then I found a website and a few social media groups of folks who collect, restore and use them, and they hold gatherings, swap meets, camping weekends, etc.... they even have a couple official clubs! Next thing ya know, I had close to 150 of them..... Hmm, sounds kinda familiar, doesnt it?