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Re: [Shop-talk] Generators

To: "Brian C. Kennedy" <kennedybc@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] Generators
From: "Karl Vacek" <kvacek@ameritech.net>
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 12:22:56 -0500
And the truck needs a portable generator to let you take the TIG welder over 
to the neighbor's to fix his generator...





> And I'm probably going to need a new truck to bring it home.
> -- 
> Brian C. Kennedy
> 2711 North Maple Road                Home  734 994 5205
> Ann Arbor, MI 48103                    Cell 734 649 8548
> Fax 734 661 5108                        Email kennedybc@comcast.net
>
>
>
>> From: Karl Vacek <kvacek@ameritech.net>
>> Reply-To: Karl Vacek <KVacek@Ameritech.net>
>> Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 12:01:54 -0500
>> Cc: Team shop-talk <shop-talk@autox.team.net>
>> Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] Generators
>>
>> Solution -- this is the ideal excuse to buy a TIG welder  ;-)
>>
>>
>>
>>> I share your view on replacing a working generator even though it's 
>>> almost
>>> 20 years old and doesn't owe anybody anything. It's a 3/4" hole and I
>>> don't
>>> think I'm equipped to handle one that large. Also, it is pretty badly
>>> corroded at the bottom of the hole and it doesn't look like there is
>>> enough
>>> material left.
>>> Brian
>>> -- 
>>> Brian C. Kennedy
>>> 2711 North Maple Road                Home  734 994 5205
>>> Ann Arbor, MI 48103                    Cell 734 649 8548
>>> Fax 734 661 5108                        Email kennedybc@comcast.net
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> From: Richard George <rkg@teleport.com>
>>>> Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 09:02:19 -0700
>>>> Cc: 'Shop Talk' <shop-talk@autox.team.net>
>>>> Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] Generators
>>>>
>>>> Brian,
>>>>
>>>> how about just drilling out the hole and putting a helicoil in it?
>>>>  Seems kind of extreme to get rid of a working generator because you
>>>> can't hang the
>>>> muffler on it :-)
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>>
>>>> rkg
>>>> (Richard George)
>>>>
>>>>> My neighbor has my old 4 KW generator. (I should have sold it to 
>>>>> someone
>>>>> much further away.) The tapped hole in the Al head to connect the
>>>>> muffler
>>>>> corroded so badly I don't see an easy way to fix it. So, I looked for 
>>>>> a
>>>>> replacement. Harbor Freight seems to have the nicest selection, 
>>>>> Chicago
>>>>> Electric. Any recommendations, thoughts?
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> Brian
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