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

OK, so I was walking the dog about a block from my house when I stumbled upon a craftsman 10.5/29 model C950-52820-0, s/n 004199   9004 in excellent condition. It was sitting at the end of the driveway with a "to give away" sign on it, also saying the the speed control didn't work.
Needless to say I wheeled it home in a flash. Popped off the bottom service cover, & low & behold, the friction disk & drive plate were covered with oil. A bit of brake cleaner & 10 minutes later everything seems to be fine.

Question 1 is should I feel guilty about keeping  the machine?

Question 2 is where can I find a manual for it (kinda answers question 1)

Cheers

I wonder why the guy threw it out if the fix was so simple?
Maybe he had it looked at by some shady repairman who tried to take advantage of the situation and overestimated the cost of repair, and the guy figured the cost to repair wasn't worthwhile. Or maybe this was one of several issues he had with it and got sick of repairing it. Or maybe he has lots of money and just bought a new one. Could be many reasons..

But no matter what his reason, keeping it is definitely not unethical. Just for me personally I would get satisfaction out of giving it back especially if his reason for getting rid of it was because of a shady repairman estimate.

Free your mind a be a good sport, take it back to him. You will feel better. The guy might have bought another snow blower. If you let him know you fixed it, you will not feel like you got over on the guy  anymore. Stop being a devel, be a angel. The guy you took it from has the manual.

GtWtNorth wrote:
If it was Royster's old machine he probably doesn't want it back.  I think that he went out and bought a new blower made by Husqvarna.  You know...the kind with the hydrostatic drive made by Hydro Gear.

Paul7 wrote:

I sure wish someone could explain how this "h-y-d-r-o-s-t-a-t-i-c" (am I saying it right?) drive works??? Perhaps someday someone will invent a drive system where you move a lever forward and the machine moves forward and when you move the lever backwards it moves backwards. It would also be nice if the farther you move the lever, the faster or slower it goes. Oh well, back to friction drive for now...

Paul7 wrote:

Really?  I didn't know he bought a Husqvarna, the kind with the hydrostatic drive by Hydro Gear, same as a Craftsman. 

I thought he bought a new Sno-Tek 28".

FrankMA wrote:

I'm sure if you dig hard enough, you'll find posts from 2004 from people that hasn't been active in years that has information on hydroelastic magneto emulsifier drive.  Search is your friend. 

It's quite simple actually, you just think how fast you want to go, the machine responds.  No levers, cables, nothing.  If you want it to crawl at 2.5423632 centimeter per hour, just project your thought into the hypersuperminimacro dyslexic hypnotic transducer, and off it goes. 

There's just one catch, if you have dirty thoughts, your snowblower automatically heads towards the gutter as default safety maneuver. 

aa335 wrote:

I'm not sure, but I don't think you're taking my question seriously. I don't think there is such a thing as a hypersuperminimacro dyslexic hypnotic transducer???

FrankMA wrote:

There is if you're from NJ.

FrankMA wrote:

Sorry FrankMA.   That's what Leonard Nimoy told me on "How it Works". 

aa335 wrote:
Well that's different - It all makes sense to me now!