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Dear EGT owners and sages,
Tonight, with the first 6" of snow in Nebraska, I
tried putting concrete (2 hole) "'cinder" blocks on the sheet metal shelf behind
the seat of my 27 year old larlge frame EGT by GE.
This to help the snowthrower
clear my driveway which is only 34 ' x 17'.
It didn't help the traction much, and I had to
raise the hood and press the reset button to get it going once.
After trying to back up the 12 percent grade of my
concrete ddriveway, smoke started pouring out of the dash
compartment.
The emergency disconnect sw
lever didn;t make a bit of difference.
I ran, got the big Halon beast fire and
owner killer, and with a 4 or 5 sshots, the smoke stopped for a
while. Again, dark, no light, no wrench, burst into house, found
flashlight, crescent wrench, and burst out to disconnect any batt terminals I
could get to; more smoke, more Halon, REAR batt coompartment now
oozing smoke. Knock the two blocks off, raisee the seat/nattery cover and
disconnected one of the four rear batts. No smoke. I died. *&*%$*&
blocks.
Fright.
Remorse to have rewired a new timer charger last
month and miswired the $*%&#*wires. When
daylight comes, I'm going to be sick looking at the fried wirings.
I have an auto short finder gadget, might
help.
Advice? be careful not to load cinder blocks on the
rear batt cover, and be sure the emergcncy disconneect will
disconnect!
Paul Wood, "sadder but probably no
wiser."
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