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snowmachine
Location: Washington State
Joined: Nov 12, 2008
Points: 268
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Re: New toy!!!
Reply #12 Nov 7, 2010 12:55 pm |
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Seconded - do not wait to fill it with oil+gas and try it out. I also recently got a 221Q and had trouble starting it up initially - you can read about it here: http://www.abbysguide.com/ope/discussions/48798-0-1.html I would not have been happy if I'd had that experience with a foot of snow waiting for me on the driveway. Personally, I used the Amsoil Saber Outboard synthetic oil which was recommended as a good, low-smoke TCW3 oil. Now that I have the 221Q starting up properly, it seems to run just fine with that oil at a roughly 1:66 oil-gas ratio. +1 on the Amsoil. I use it in everything.
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Steve_Cebu
Joined: Dec 17, 2009
Points: 888
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Re: New toy!!!
Reply #20 Nov 10, 2010 11:38 am |
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Steve,
If you have icicles like that, you need to take a serious look at two things, 1. your attic insulation, and 2, your attic ventilation. You're probably having ice-dam formations as well, and that could cause serious problems down the road. They put on a new roof and I got to see exactly what was under the old one. We have no attic at all, no crawl space, nothing. The roof ends at the sheetrock on the other side. We were having some ice dams but supposedly that's been fixed. It's all on one side of teh house the back side with no sun gets almost nothing. They redirected drainage around the door and we shall see since every year the ice has ripped off the water drain. They used a different method this time. Hopefully it will work this time.
"If you have more miles on your snow blower than your car, you live in New England." "If you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching, you live in New England."
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drifter
Joined: Oct 13, 2010
Points: 115
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Re: New toy!!!
Reply #21 Nov 10, 2010 12:14 pm |
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Wow, that sucks Steve. Ice-dam formations can allow the backwater to get quite deep,,, well over a foot in some cases. This allows water to seep under the shingles, and down into your walls, rotting out studs, and causing mildew problems. Not good. I certainly hope your roofing contractor applied a membrane along the edge of that roof. One cheap solution would be to use heater-cables along the edge of the roof. These heater cables should be zig-zagged from the edge of the roof,,, and back to a point behind the wall below that part of the roof. The heater cables provide just enough warmth so that any ice forming around the cable melts, allowing drainage. Unfortunately, this will not eliminate your heat-loss. http://www.heatersplus.com/roofs.htm
This message was modified Nov 10, 2010 by drifter
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