#lifeballast — Public Fediverse posts
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And now the lawnmower works again and babytruck helped a bunch without using its battery at all!
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I lifted the mower up into the bed of babytruck and used a rope wrapped around the rollbar to tip the lawnmower up at an angle and then could just sit in a chair to see the damage.
I made two new holes and used stainless steel rounded head carriage bolts. To get them to fit snugly I used a tapered square file to make new holes on the loose part square so the carriage bolts heads would fit in, lock, and take up as little space as possible on the inside.
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It’s absurd how useful both babytruck and the new garage are for fixing something like this.
I thought I had killed the motor!The lawnmower motor hadn’t died , it turns out there is an inner circular piece of steel that is meant to go inside the main deck and just in front of the spinning blade. It had two very ineffective little rivets that came loose and the spinning blade was hitting the loose metal guard.
12/n
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My brother also gave me a portable temporary “garage” he wasn’t using anymore and he and my sister helped set it up.
I had recently bought a used lawnmower and right after I started using it I was mowing what vaguely resembles lawn and hit something and the mower started making a horrible clacking/tapping noise.
I thought I had killed the motor!
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