Good specs, good price on the Dixons. So I went to the manufacturer's website to download a Manual. Well, their manual search function did not recognize the model number, so no manual for me. I did note on a page of FAQs their recommendation: "Clean with compressed air whenever possible. Wash with water only when absolutely necessary. Water cannot be completely removed from the mower and will cause rust and corrosion in concealed areas of the mower. Water can also get into the wire and plug-ins which may short out those electrical connections. If water is used, use compressed air or a leaf blower to dry the unit." A lot of tractors have "wash-out ports" where a hose is attached to clean it, including the Dixon! I found this quite interesting.

"The Owner's Manual suggests that a warm engine restart "may" not need choke." "The present generation of carburetted OPE has such lean operating parameters (thank you EPA and C.A.R.B.) that I think it may become more common for the need to apply choke (or partial choke) to restart even a warm engine." mownie has it right. I have a new 30hp Kohler Command Pro that has to be choked just about every time I crank if it sets longer then 15 or 20 minutes. Use to drive me nuts. But oh does it run! I've a buddy of mine that has a 28hp Kholer EFI that starts hot, cold, and even in the snow. Just the way it is. ms

@jellytoast -- I can look at photos of a kitchen or laundry and pretty much tell when it was built by the appliances, faucet choice, granite and tile. Not always, but usually. Home trends are very slow to change. Because when people are spending a lot of $$ they tend to be cautious about choices, as we know here. New products are slower to catch on then might be imagined and trends move slowly in kitchens & baths. Even major manufacturers launch new products once a year or less. Often what someone cites as new in an article is new in that place but maybe not elsewhere. So when someone posts and asks are pro style faucets "over" the answer is no, because as you say they are still being sold/displayed (and may always be). But the answer is that they also are less of a novelty now that they've been around for a time -- perhaps in much the same way the Kohler Karbon faucet is. So that choice becomes a style alternative vs a basic because pull downs have become the basic in terms of functionality. They offer the same type things as pro style faucets in a more conventional package & size. Plus pull downs is the category getting the tech add ons such as the touch and sensor pull-down faucets or something like the KWC Ono which has an LED light in the tip over the past few years. I say that pull outs are dated because, in the past 5 years, they have been used far less frequently than pull downs. They are lower and extend into the sink further (more prone to bumping) ad the pull out is not generally considered as easy to handle as the pull down. They are still sold and still purchased but not at the same pace as pull downs. Their "cool" factor (for anyone concerned about that) is gone. The same could be said of bridge faucets with side sprayers. They are a choice for traditional kitchens and certain historical types but there isn't much more they offer now than 10 years ago plus they take up another hole in the sink that could be used for a filter or hot water or something that gives additional function to the user user experience. Not to say they aren't lovely. Not talking about like/dislike any particular style. We all have our own taste and that's to be respected.

I have a faucet that sprays and stays: Cobra faucet. It's really great in my laundry room, which I used for dishes for nearly a year. ;) It's not so "nice" looking as some of the others. I think it would work really well wall-mounted; I have it on the deck of a laundry sink. It might help for you... Brenda, I had to look back at what I'd written when there was some implication that I was proferring any sort of marital advice!! lol and then some. While I can claim to have been acquainted with my partner going on 33 years, I know I know positively zero about marital (or any other kind of) harmony. By returning that faucet I wasn't really keeping peace or falling through on any game plan; it was just not really possible to have kept it. You kinda had to be there.... ;) Back to hosing about faucets ... I think there are a few parameters to consider and evaluate for your own personal relevant importance/priority. I'll try to list a few, others can add: (i) appearance (ii) spray presence (iii) spray style (depress and hold or stay-on) (iv) spray default (returns to spray on close or stays where you left it) (v) arc (affecting where stream starts relative to dink's edge) (vi) arm length (affects where stream hits bottom of sink, closeness to drain) (vii) pull down vs pull out (affects how your arm twists to grab moveable spray head) (viii) touch (foot pedals, finger touch - possibilities beyond needing a hand to turn faucet on/off) (ix) one/two handle (affects whether water temperature is mixed internally or by you with two separate handles). (x) mobility of spray handle (thus "pro-style", others address this as, say, the Cobra, Karbon's moveable spray arm, pullout and pulldown spray heads attached to faucet arm) I think selecting a faucet is a very, very personal priorities thing. Plus, critically, a matter of dovetailing with the sink you choose. Don't forget that. I think too often this is a source of outright mistake, as opposed to, say, personal preference. Problems arise when the faucet doesn't spray in the right place on the sink's bottom, or there isn't enough room to mount handles effectively or the spray is too high or hard or for whatever reason having to do with the sink (and there's no obvious formula for determining this), the spray bounces too much. I'm sure others will flush out these lists, the list of personal preference parameters to negotiate, as well as the list of problems-sources. The only part of this whole process I truly hated was choosing the faucet, and I'm not sure I did a good job. My Karbon Kohler gets too wet at the handle, all of the time. I suppose this is a function of how I use the sink, with dripping-wet hands. Dunno. It may be just that coupled with its appearance with the little chrome ring on the countertop you just really see the water all puddled up. It's kinda annoying. My lady lux needs to have a button depressed in a too-concerted effort; there's not a ton of room to pull it out given my sink - a mistake I suppose. Both faucets need a huge amount of water pressure before their spray stays on (not so for the cobra which stays in whatever stream style you depress; it's a mechanical switch rather than an internal one dependent on the water pressure). The cobra wouldn't have been a long enough reach for the kitchen faucets. FWIW the fauset I really really wanted was the Waterstone semi-pro. At $2500 that was just an order of magnitude more than I could stomach paying! But it had a great stream, good spring, beautiful appearance, great "hand" - really a good one if you could find it in a fire sale or something.