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Re: thoughts on oil for pressure washer

To: Douglas Shook <shook@usc.edu>
Subject: Re: thoughts on oil for pressure washer
From: David Scheidt <dscheidt@tumbolia.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 22:09:26 -0500 (CDT)
On Sat, 18 Aug 2001, Douglas Shook wrote:

:
:Elton Clark wrote:
:
:- snip -
:
:> Gripe one:  why do they make it so much trouble to drain little
:> motors?  I have one that I run out of fuel and then turn it up-side-down and
:> let it drain out of the filler  . . .no way you can get the plug out for a
:> good hot-drain without 3rd degree burns and skinned knuckles!
:
:Elton,
:
:I know just what you mean.  I think the vertical shafts
:are the worst. For the mower, the plug is on the bottom in
:the middle, of course, but you cannot get at it unless you
:prop the mover on it side, unscrew the plug and
:acrobatically drop it down directly over the drain pain
:before all the oil spews out on the driveway.

My father has a nifty vacuum thingy that he uses to change the oil in the
lawn mower s and snowblower.  You work a pump, and store a baccum in a
pressure vessel.  TYhere's a hose with a valve on it; it gets stuck down the
filler, and then you open the valve.  I don't know what the thing is
called; he's had it for 15 years or so, so  they may not be sold anymore.

:

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dscheidt@tumbolia.com
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