Outdoor Power Equipment (Lawn Mowers, Snow Blowers, Chain Saws and more) Discussions

Since I had the auger assembly apart to replace bearings & bushings, I thought I would try my hand at fabbing an impeller kit. Already had all the materials laying around. I still have to put everything back together, but I can hardly wait till I can try it out. I used some 1/4 rubber sheet I had and hope it will last a while.

Don't know if will make any difference, but I thought it might be a good idea to bevel the leading edge to help shed the snow.

JohnnyBoy,

They seemed to work very well although I can't compare before & after since I never used this machine before. No balance problems either, I tried to make sure all the parts were the same size to avoid imbalance. Not much wear either, when I installed, I tried to have them touch the sides, but only a minimum.

On a side note, I did move the rubber to the back of the blade when I did the final install. Had to use a second strip  of rubber to act as a spacer to clear the foldback on the lip of the impeller.

Cheers

Thanks for the reply. I'll likely put mine underneath as well. There's a clown in my neighbourhood who delivers bundles of store flyers. He seems to have been born from the genetic pool that Joe Montana and Stevie Wonder would create. Great arm, but not much accuracy. I find those bundles of flyers everywhere, lawn, bed of my truck, roof... nowhere is safe.

If I put it underneath, I might buy a little room for jamming instead of pinching the rubber backwards and creating worse mess.

Thanks again

John

Salut Bolack

Tu peut ecrire en francais et je vais essayer de repondre le mieux que je peux (je suis un bloke et ma francais ecrit est horrible.)

Your english is very good, keep practicing, I don't think anyone here will critisize you. I can translate english to french and french to english if necessary better than most internet sites at least. I can always use the practice anyways.

Cheers

JohnnyBoyUpNorth wrote:

I've hit a rolled up newspapers and flyers a few times with a snow thrower. Didn't know what was going on when it first happened, just that the snow changed colour and didn't fall nearly as fast. Lazy jerk paper boy had a habit of throwing the flyer bundles at my steps and didn't care if they ended up on the driveway. So when it snowed, you wouldn't know they were there. I knew where the kid lived, so one night when it was snowing pretty good, I took little walk by his house and threw four bundles of flyers in his drive way. The next morning, I was giddy with the prospect of taking a bit of stroll past his place. I waited until later in the day (gave lots of time for the kid's father to clear the driveway) then went for a walk. As I approached, I could see the tell tale signs of coloured paper spread over a fairly broad area. As I got closer, I noticed that the driveway was only half cleared and the snow thrower silently sitting in the driveway. I took a good look at it from the street and could see that it had a bundle of flyers jambed in the auger and impeller.

What was really aggravating was that I had spoken very politely to the kid (about 12 years old), and had asked him to put the flyers in the plastic bags supplied to him and to make sure they land on the steps. Not a chance. In the summer, the lazy little jerk would leave four or five bundles of the same flyers on our steps regardless of the weather. Rain wind or shine. If we were not there to take care of them, they'd be all over the neighbourhood. A few times I've had to round up soggy flyers hanging from trees and shrubs after a nasty storm. In the winter, if he did put an elastic around them, he'd just fire them from the neighbour's driveway toward our steps. He wasn't too keen walking over the snow bank or back down to the street to access our house. It got so bad that I reported him to the newspaper that employed him - six times! Nothing was done. Finally, I told the newspaper that I'd have the kid charged with trespassing and would involve the law if the the b.s. didn't stop. Since then, things have been good. No more flyer problems. Just about everyone on our street cancelled their subscription to the paper thanks to the inconsistent delivery that the kid provided as well as his dumping of flyers. Yeah.... That kid was a real gem.

Borat that story was awesome!

"The next morning, I was giddy with the prospect of taking a bit of stroll past his place. I waited until later in the day (gave lots of time for the kid's father to clear the driveway) then went for a walk. As I approached, I could see the tell tale signs of coloured paper spread over a fairly broad area. As I got closer, I noticed that the driveway was only half cleared and the snow thrower silently sitting in the driveway. I took a good look at it from the street and could see that it had a bundle of flyers jambed in the auger and impeller."

Borat, you're my hero, that's what I call divine retribution. Did you ever consider writing short stories?

GtWtNorth wrote:

Yeah. I tried it once. By the time they finished censoring the book, all that was left was the page numbers.