Re: (ET) d'oh - did I hook something up wrong?

["Tim Humphrey" <hump evgrin com>]

I just visited your website. Good job.

I have to say though, I can't decide if it's a testimony to your ambition 
or my lack thereof.... I have parts tractors
in better condition than what you started with. In fact you have made me 
reconsider the decision to send one of my
decks to the recycler... I think I'll try to clean it up first.

Good Job Mike!

-- 
Stay Charged!
Hump
"Ignorance is treatable, with a good prognosis. However, if left 
untreated, it develops into Arrogance, which is often
fatal. :-)" -- Lee Hart


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> From: elec-trak-bounces cosmos phy tufts edu
> [mailto:elec-trak-bounces cosmos phy tufts edu] On Behalf Of Michael S
> Briggs
> Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 7:16 PM
> To: elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu
> Subject: (ET) d'oh - did I hook something up wrong?
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>
>       I finally had time to finish putting most of my "new" E-15 back
> together, after painting, and plopped the batteries in with my freshly 
> made
> cables (4 gauge). For pictures, see
> http://einstein.unh.edu/~msbriggs/Elec-Trak/
> (the flash from the camera makes it look brighter blue than it really is)
>       Anyway - I haven't put the mower blades on yet, figuring I could 
> use
> the lift to raise the deck up to give me easy access for putting them on.
> So, once I got everything back together, I used the lift to start raising
> the deck up. After the U-bar hit the top of the deck, it *really* 
> struggled.
> I heard a straining/tearing/cracking noise, so stopped for the moment to
> check everything out.
>       I'm wondering if I connected something wrong, as far as how the 
> deck
> connects to the tractor. I had trouble getting the U-bar to go all the 
> way
> into the rails it slides into (had to bang on it with a sledgehammer to 
> get
> it most of the way in), and I suspect that that's the problem.
>       I decided to give the lift another try, and again when the U-bar 
> hit
> the top of the deck, heard a tearing noise again, and eventually the lift
> strap snapped. D'oh.
>       How the lift strap connects to the mower deck doesn't seem all that
> well thought out to me, personally. I'd think it would make much more 
> sense
> to have it connect closer to the front of the deck, to give better torque
> for lifting the front up for good access to the underside. Instead, it
> relies on a very small lever arm between the lift attachment point and 
> the
> U-bar. Or am I missing something?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
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