do you fix it more than you use it ?

[ZAPPER]

Cutting torches and welding machines too. Every moron and their brother botches up the torch tip and messes with the gauges and waste all the gas trying to do demo, and when I have to fab something I have to dress or replace the tip reset, repair, or replace the gauges and swap out the bottles. And it gets billed to my job! Pretty much the samething with the welders. The wirefeeder is not for morons to use and the generator has either been droped, rolled over, got a flat or out of fuel! I could spend eighty hours a week just fixing things that never should have been broken in the first place! How in the hell does a guy dent a gas bottle? They are made out of armor plate steel!

[thecoalman]

Chainsaw
Rototiller
Weed wacker
Maybe not really more time fixing them than useing them, but I almost always have to work on them before I use them!

Quyick tip for longer run time on small engines without having to tune them up... Drain the gas aout after you use them for extended periods of no use or fill them up to capacity for short periods of no use. This is a real good idea for something that's going to be stored seasonally such as a snowblower.

[thecoalman]

Cutting torches and welding machines too. Every moron and their brother botches up the torch tip and messes with the gauges and waste all the gas trying to do demo, and when I have to fab something I have to dress or replace the tip reset, repair, or replace the gauges and swap out the bottles.

....no comment

[mrtristan]

Half-half, I'd say. I get the bug to do something with my computer once in a while, just because.

I keep my tools at work maintained well, so I don't have to spend a lot of time fixing them. I'm the only one who actually maintains them, so if I go down, so will the tools. I maintain the machines that I use more religiously than the other ones, and ironically, they are the ones that break. My father, on the other hand, abuses his stuff and they last longer than mine.

[ZAPPER]

Coalman
My ability to fix small gas engines won't allow my brain to take care of them
Just how do you drain the gas on something without running it until it is dry or breaking a small plastic fitting while trying to pull off a fuel line

Actually I beleive that leaving a full tank of good gas in a machine is better than draining it down to a few drops that you can't get out. A full tank won't laquer up as fast as a small amount will. And if you do have seasonal equipment just start it up about once a month or so and run it until it quits smoking too bad and then shut it down.

I ain't no angel when it comes to torch tips myself (how do you think that I got so good at cleaning and fileing them) And for the gauges, Hell I ain't had a set in 20 years that wasn't all bashed up. I set the pressure by looking at and listening to flame, thats where the work is being done anyways. (but it would be nice to know how much gas I got before I start something) If you use a torch enough you will learn not to touch it to the steel or bang it around and use it like a hammer and them little tip cleaners are hard to use too aren't they? Go ahead and break one off in the tip and you will start to take a little better care not to even have to use them as much

I live in the real world, when someone else screws up I don't want to hear their excuses, but when I screw up I have good excuses

[zzyzzx]

Isn't it snowmobiles that are perpetually in repair?

I have a bicycle that's in perpetual repair. Between the flats and crappy Shimano parts it's some serious work to keep it going. If your car were that unreliable, you'd shoot it.