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Re: [Shop-talk] Generators

To: Karl Vacek <KVacek@Ameritech.net>
Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] Generators
From: "Brian C. Kennedy" <kennedybc@comcast.net>
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 13:12:03 -0400
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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