Did you fall or damn near knock yourself out when it broke Lou ?After years of loyal service (and belching black smoke, taking off on it's own, etc.), this just happened to my beloved Briggs & Stratton:
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Ah well. I inadvertently clipped a snake or two, so at least the terriers had a ball. Kind of gross seeing them playing with/eating the bits, though.
You can replace that with one from just about any brand, they are pretty much universal. Or you can buy a replacement but the new ones don't last as long as the old ones.After years of loyal service (and belching black smoke, taking off on it's own, etc.), this just happened to my beloved Briggs & Stratton:
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Ah well. I inadvertently clipped a snake or two, so at least the terriers had a ball. Kind of gross seeing them playing with/eating the bits, though.
Nah, it just snapped and I stood there thinking "welp, this sucks." I did shove it about 25 feet sending it banging into the garden wall, though.
What BW said. Just make a new one out of good quality rope, it will last much much longer than a store bought replacement
I tried one called oil man awhile back that was killer.
Yeah, an older guy that lives down the block (we imbibe/smoke now and again) mentioned using military paracord. Said that he's used it many times with great results, the same stuff that he used to "jump out of helicopters with years ago".
Lol.Nah, it just snapped and I stood there thinking "welp, this sucks." I did shove it about 25 feet sending it banging into the garden wall, though.
My back yard now has a thick mohawk down the center.
Sure, I could pop over to a local place and grab a sparkling new mower in 20 minutes flat, but that's not how I operate. I found a few YouTube videos so I'm gonna have a go at it myself. (I've got everything I need, sans the cord itself and a specific wrench for the bullshit plastic housing....was gonna just rip the fucker off, but then it'd look even uglier and the moisture might seep in easier.)
Paracord works great. I always got a 1000 foot roll laying around. Its good stuff.
Nope.Lol.
Have fun. You now get to experience winding the coil and it taking the rope back in and right when you think its almost over, BAM!, it unwinds in a millisecon and the coil flies out.
I've got some Vietnam-era fine wire spools, surplus stuff. It's green and was/is apparently used for ordinances. (?)
Be careful when you order. Ask the seller for a mil spec number if they are claiming it to be true 550 cord. There is a lot of lower quality knock off stuff. The knock off stuff will be around 250 pound test as the real stuff if 550 pound test.
Not ordering online, dude; I'm hitting Harbor Freight. If they don't have the exact diameter I'm wanting then I'll simply travel on. (There are dozens of places that sell these sorts of things in this shitbag 'city'....farm supply warehouses, hardware, military surplus, chain places, flea markets.)
Awww, you take the fun outta this Malt - most all of us old guys have fought with that fkn coil spring for what seems like 3 or 4 beers worth of a frustrating lifetime.
I usually just take the entire housing off an old one and replace it. I have a bunch of them from when there was a temporary dump just down the road. It was open 3 days a week and the county would haul everything off to the actual landfill on the other side of town.Lol.
Have fun. You now get to experience winding the coil and it taking the rope back in and right when you think its almost over, BAM!, it unwinds in a millisecon and the coil flies out.
Lol.
It's amazing what people will throw away. I think lazy people do just so they can hire a lawn service. Ohh well one man's thrash is another man's free lawn mower.
Lou you'll never believe this ....I finished mixing my soil today and when I returned home ,,,I decided to mow my back yard ......my Carb literally fell off the side of the motor .......I immediately thought ,,,where did I hear about another mower mishap today (((LOU))) ya jinxed me .....the intake on my 4.5 Briggs is a plastic tube ....it cracked in half and was literally dangling by the linkage .....WELP!! that sucks ..lolNah, it just snapped and I stood there thinking "welp, this sucks." I did shove it about 25 feet sending it banging into the garden wall, though.
My back yard now has a thick mohawk down the center.
Sure, I could pop over to a local place and grab a sparkling new mower in 20 minutes flat, but that's not how I operate. I found a few YouTube videos so I'm gonna have a go at it myself. (I've got everything I need, sans the cord itself and a specific wrench for the bullshit plastic housing....was gonna just rip the fucker off, but then it'd look even uglier and the moisture might seep in easier.)