{"id":3611,"date":"2010-04-30T05:00:41","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T10:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=3611"},"modified":"2010-04-30T05:00:41","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T10:00:41","slug":"tiller-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=3611","title":{"rendered":"Tiller woes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last fall, I treated the tiller with some Sta-Bil, but by spring, most of it had evaporated. There was a fair amount of varnish in the carb, and it’s taken some doing to get it all clear again. <\/p>\n

I have tilled three, maybe four times this season, I want to have the ground like flour when I plant. it’s pretty good now, I’ve been tilling in organics and grass clippings and compost for about ten years. <\/p>\n

The tiller, which I got from Calvin<\/a>is a Troy Bilt. it’s old enough it has like a four digit serial number. And today it wouldn’t start, for the first time in my life, and probably it’s life. <\/p>\n

So I pull off the filter, and it’s flooded through and through. I’m amazed it turns over. I pull the float bowl.<\/p>\n

The idle passage had been varnished up, but I had cleared that. The main passage had varnished up, but I had cleared that as well. There were plenty of places filled with varnish, and I cleaned them all. <\/p>\n

You’d think, wouldn’t you, that fuel that had deposited varnish in so many places and clogged up so many things, would clog a pinhole in a float. But you’d be wrong. The varnish managed to completely clog a 1\/16″ hole, and yet leave a hole open (and fill the float with fuel!) through a hole I could only see through the 20 power lens of my desk microscope. <\/p>\n

So I did what all 8 year olds do, I put the damned float in the Weber grill, turned the grill on medium, and baked the gas out of the tiny, tiny hole. <\/p>\n

Of course I lit it. <\/p>\n

And then I put a drop of solder over the hole, and reassembled the tiller, and ran one more trip through the garden. We’ll see how it does long term. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last fall, I treated the tiller with some Sta-Bil, but by spring, most of it had evaporated. There was a fair amount of varnish in the carb, and it’s taken some doing to get it all clear again. I have tilled three, maybe four times this season, I want to have the ground like flour […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}