Re: (ET) I had a sad thing happen to my E-15 this weekend...

[David C Robie <mycroftxx1 juno com>]

Leftover halloween vandals?  Anyone who knew these tractors wouldn't bust
a card. I'd put her together again so she looked good and set her out
again, but with a model T Ford buzz coil running in her and a chain from
the coil HT termnal  dragging on the ground so anyone who touched her
would get one heck of an electric shock.  Did that to my car many years
back with a switch under the dash - and a switch also in the grille I
could turn on or shut it off with a wooden stick to get in her. I could
make her 'hot' any time I wanted and had a lot of fun with the darned
thing.  Knocked one of the neighborhood so called tough guys right into a
greasy mud puddle with it, never had any problems with that bunch again.
And it's kinda rough on dogs who want to lift a leg on a tire or
something. They go away yelping.

Dave
Weymouth MA


On Sun, 5 Nov 2006 21:03:33 -0500 "Max Hall" <maxmatic gmail com> writes:
> It stopped working after I pulled it out of my shed, and so I left it 
> under
> a tarp for the night until I could come out in daylight and 
> troubleshoot it.
> Unfortunately, this was up by a sort of busy road.
> 
> Well, over the night, maybe because the the tarp blew off and it 
> looked like
> it was being offered as scrap, or maybe because someone just wanted 
> to steal
> some Elec-Trak parts, or maybe just for the sake of being mean, 
> someone
> stole the tarp, the Lester charger that was with it, and then ripped 
> out a
> bunch of the guts. I mean, it was weird: why break a Card 1 and take 
> most,
> but not all, of the shattered remains of it? (There were *no* parts 
> lying
> around that I could find! Tidy vandalism, if it was vandalism.) And 
> "they"
> tried like hell to get that whole sheet-metal part that Card 1, the 
> two
> relays, the resistor card, etc., are mnounted to, but GE assembly is 
> pretty
> tough. Despite twisting and twisting and twisting and bending part 
> of the
> body sheet metal as they prised, it stayed.
> 
> Bummer.
> 
> It may be time to put an Alltrax in it. At least I have a 
> semi-reliable E-20
> to move the thrower to.
> 
> If any of you near Sudbury, MA, is offered free, well-used ET relays 
> or
> other broken controller bits, tell the offerer that they are lower 
> than
> snakes' bellies in wagon ruts.
> 
> -Max