(ET) Where is your tractor? Dennis Pestka

[<barry fredericktown com>]

Dennis Pestka

Where are you located?

Barry

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Today's Topics:

   1. Re:  Wheelhorse items for FREE (john j casey)
   2. Re:  replacing Electric Ox power-off brakes (Ken Olum)


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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2021 14:08:56 -0500
From: john j casey <jjcrmc verizon net>
To: Pestka Dennis <dennispestka4 hotmail com>
Cc: Electrak <elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu>
Subject: Re: (ET) Wheelhorse items for FREE
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That mower, with better steel and the fat mower motors, is a good one.
It?ll have the flower petal reinforcing.  One I bought sat out for
God-only-knows-how-long, almost no rust.
POR-15 on the dirty side and away you go.
Jack

> On Jan 16, 2021, at 7:52 AM, Pestka Dennis <dennispestka4 hotmail com>
wrote:
> 
> Have a New Year Special for someone.
> I need to free up some room, and I'm going to start with some items I 
> will
give away. I may even be talked into delivering, if the distance is
reasonable, and you pay me $.20 a mile.
> All of these items have been kept inside.
> Contact me for more info, or photos.
> I used all of these items except the snowblower for many years.
> Tractor has not run for about 6 years.
> 
>  - Wheelhorse C185, needs repair and batteries.
>  - Wheelhorse 42" front mount mower. 
>  - Wheelhorse Snow Blade and Chains.
>  - Elec Trak Snowblower that someone painted  red.
>  - Homemade Vacuum Cart. I used this many times and it works well.
> 
> Thanks;
> Dennis Pestka
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2021 17:28:56 -0500
From: Ken Olum <kdo cosmos phy tufts edu>
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Subject: Re: (ET) replacing Electric Ox power-off brakes
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Thanks to everyone who responded to my query last fall about repairing or
replacing the power-off brakes on my Electric Ox.  You suggested relining,
and I called a couple of shops (Midwest Brake and All Friction), but 
neither
was able to work with material as thin as the what I needed.  In the end I
bought new units from Inertia Dynamics.  I got them for the right diameter
shaft, but they expected a square key whereas my old one had a roll pin.  
So
I had my local machine shop
(Pearson) drill the hex collar from Inertia Dynamics to fit the roll pin,
and I am back in business.

These Inertia Dynamics units seem much better than whatever I had
before.   The frame is open, so material rubbed off the disk doesn't
accumulate to clog up the mechanism, and the the friction disk can fit
anywhere over the collar, so you don't have to get the position on the 
shaft
exactly right.  They seem well built and hold the tractor very well on a
hill.

This was a lot more trouble than I was expecting, but I'm very happy with
the end result.

                                        Ken



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