You sure know the cord used for gardening electric tools; That's the one with splices.
I repaired one recently; Luckily cut close to an end, so I rewired the plug, it just became shorter.
I repaired one recently; Luckily cut close to an end, so I rewired the plug, it just became shorter.
My dad had a Craftsman that did that same thing. (center mounts) Somehow, I still managed to run the cord over as did my father. Instead of replacing it though, it was spliced back together and taped up with cheap electrical tape. Not to mention, he likes to wrap the cord up around his arm which invariably twists the entire cable...
It was so starved for power, it would slow down over short grass, and we couldn't cut more than half the width of the mower at a time.
The Craftsman looked like this:
The cord ended up like this:
THIS!
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I learned (in a television production course of all places) to wrap over-under... I don't... But I learned to... I wrap in a continous loop which makes wrapping it up a pain in my butt sometimes (but only if someone else uses the cord).
I lay the cord out so I can draw it as needed and coil it back up.
EDIT: I just looked up the job of "cable puller" in regards to broadcast television and there is no such job anymore.... Cable puller was the guy who made sure the cable(s) that went to the camera was free flowing as to not impede the motion of the camera... When I did it, they were Ikagami cameras with Saticon tubes... "DON'T SHOOT THE LIGHTS!" was a common phrase in that class... The resulting burn in would ruin a tube, of course.
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I learned (in a television production course of all places) to wrap over-under... I don't... But I learned to... I wrap in a continous loop which makes wrapping it up a pain in my butt sometimes (but only if someone else uses the cord).
I lay the cord out so I can draw it as needed and coil it back up.
EDIT: I just looked up the job of "cable puller" in regards to broadcast television and there is no such job anymore.... Cable puller was the guy who made sure the cable(s) that went to the camera was free flowing as to not impede the motion of the camera... When I did it, they were Ikagami cameras with Saticon tubes... "DON'T SHOOT THE LIGHTS!" was a common phrase in that class... The resulting burn in would ruin a tube, of course.
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Indeed I start to see that petrol is the way and not all are born equal 🙂 I`ve always hated the loss of power when grass is wet and inability to collect (maybe too heavy to throw properly). And add the cord issue. Started to wonder why`s there no a V8 lawn mower- that would be cool, I`d definitely buy one 😀 Maybe a Corvette powered one, can have many blades and will mow over rock 😀
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There's lots of them. One for sale up the street from me: Sears lawn-tractor with a 302 (vintage Mustang) V-8 precariously perched over the front axle and tuning the drive belt.
Ford Flathead V8 Powered 1970s John Deere Lawn Tractor
This Corvette Powered Lawn Mower Hit 134 MPH
Would you buy this Ls swapped lawn mower with around 1000hp?
(may actually mow; geared deck)This mows:
https://gmauthority.com/blog/2015/0...y-cut-grass-with-a-small-block-powered-mower/
This does not:
When my hands tingle from 1-lung mowing, I fantasize about eight thumb-size pistons spinning 8000RPM into a gear reduction. Same power, smoother, lighter.
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The reason for over/under is so you don't keep putting another twist in the wire for every loop.
Over/under ends up with no cumulative twists. +1 -1 +1 blah blah blah. For cords less than 100ft
I zig-zag and then tie it in a knot. Sounds silly but works great. Untie the knot, hold the near end
and throw the bundle backhand. If you did it right, it will end up a nearly straight line with no knots.
BTW Saticons were more forgiving than plumbicons for hitting the lights but modern solid state
sensors are even better. Yeah, I worked broadcast TV for 45 years.
G²
Cool! I was looking for the words "mid-deck" referring to the handle bar mount. I'm going to have to give that over-under a try - I've got one 40 footer cord that's such a twisted mess; thick, flat, stiff and old to begin with. I found it in the woods 20 years ago while walking the dogs; defect free - just needed a plug and socket was all; cant understand why someone just threw it...
May I ask a side question or two to you guys? I recall that in the late 1960ies and/or early 1970ies Husqvarna marketed a hover mower in Europe that was equipped with a Wankel rotary engine under the brand name FlyMo (= flying mower). The engine IIRC was made in Schweinfurt, Germany, by Fichtel & Sachs. The mower wasn't offered for a long time, maybe because of it's huge gas consumption (typically for pioneering Wankel engines of that time). The brand of Flymo still exists, but doesn't make hover or rotary engine mowers any more. What was this specific hover mower's model name? I'd like to search for one or two, 'cause I want to get my hands on the relative light weight (for it's power) rotary engine. Google still refuses to help me to date.
Best regards!
Best regards!
When I was a teenager we had a Flymo. It had a regular two stroke engine and was a pain to start.
I have never heard of one with a rotary engine.
I have never heard of one with a rotary engine.
The only Wankel engines that might be in production would be Mazda cars, and just maybe Triumph motorcycles.
The 1500cc odd engine in the RX7 takes as much gas as a 4000 cc pickup truck.
That alone caused the production to end.
And obviously emission standards, now applicable to most engines, won't stand them.
As for odd and obsolete models, the tip seals and other parts will be difficult to find.
The 1500cc odd engine in the RX7 takes as much gas as a 4000 cc pickup truck.
That alone caused the production to end.
And obviously emission standards, now applicable to most engines, won't stand them.
As for odd and obsolete models, the tip seals and other parts will be difficult to find.
I'm quite sure that this was a rotary engine powered hover mower. But maybe you're right that I'm in an error, 'cause googling doesn't bring any results so far.
A rotary's enormous gas consumption brought almost any automobile or motorcycle production to a halt, with the exception of the RX7, which at least didn't suffer from burnt tip gaskets anymore. I recall the famous (due to it's then breathtaking design and the engine) German NSU Ro 80 with it's gasket issues (that eventually led the company to be folded and bought out by Volkswagen) and the »Reaktor« in the exhaust line to clean the exhaust gas at least a little bit.
What makes a mower's rotary interesting for me? Well, with three of them I could build a Junkers Ju 52 model aircraft. I know that the Ju 52 had three radial engines, and a small rotary resembles a radial much more than a single cylinder piston engine.
Best regards!
A rotary's enormous gas consumption brought almost any automobile or motorcycle production to a halt, with the exception of the RX7, which at least didn't suffer from burnt tip gaskets anymore. I recall the famous (due to it's then breathtaking design and the engine) German NSU Ro 80 with it's gasket issues (that eventually led the company to be folded and bought out by Volkswagen) and the »Reaktor« in the exhaust line to clean the exhaust gas at least a little bit.
What makes a mower's rotary interesting for me? Well, with three of them I could build a Junkers Ju 52 model aircraft. I know that the Ju 52 had three radial engines, and a small rotary resembles a radial much more than a single cylinder piston engine.
Best regards!
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I would love a lawnmower using that engine. Not really a rotary engine.
Not about to pay 2K for it tough.
My grandmother told me about once having a hover mower I am guessing about 1965 or so. It was good for mowing around the pond. The one complaint was it did not hold much gas.
A weed eater would be a better choice for that now days.
!I remember a chainsaw with Wankel Engine, so I done some googling too and found a site about Sachs Wankel engines showing a chainsaw, lawnmower and some other stuff powered by their rotary engines.
Heres the LINK
Of course not. Junker JU-52 had three radials, which is what the SAIEG73R5 is. Yes, each of the three JU-52 engine had more than twice as many cylinders, but you get what you pay for (at most) and I hear you on "budget". (I could buy a pre-tested/still-runs Honda 149HP for about that price.)
The Owls Head museum has a plane with what should be a Rhone rotary. And it has flown in living memory. I'm looking and looking and somehow it morphed into a Jacobs radial. Which makes a heap of sense: the best Rhones and clones were no match for a Jacobs. They also have a copy of a Curtis pusher, should be a V-8 made out of motocycle engine bits, but is really a Lycoming/Continental.
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@ DavorD: Thanks a lot for this amazing link! It made my eyes wide open and allowed me to see that I indeed was in some severe error: It wasn't a Flymo hover mover that I seemed to be remembering, but exactly this wheeled one.
@ PRR: The fascinating Ju 52 aircraft featured three BMW 132 radial engines, or Pratt & Whitney Hornets, or Spanish Elizalde Betas. All of them had nine cylinders and an almost circular outline. I think in a model aircraft this rounded appearance could be emulated by a Wankel engine rather than the star shaped, 5 cylinder radial SAIG73R5. This also is rather big and would require the build of a very large model aircraft, which would make it much more §§§.
Anyway, I'll look for three smaller KMS5 58cc Wankel chainsaw engines now.
Best regards!
@ PRR: The fascinating Ju 52 aircraft featured three BMW 132 radial engines, or Pratt & Whitney Hornets, or Spanish Elizalde Betas. All of them had nine cylinders and an almost circular outline. I think in a model aircraft this rounded appearance could be emulated by a Wankel engine rather than the star shaped, 5 cylinder radial SAIG73R5. This also is rather big and would require the build of a very large model aircraft, which would make it much more §§§.
Anyway, I'll look for three smaller KMS5 58cc Wankel chainsaw engines now.
Best regards!