The grass is dry. I always mow in late morning after the morning dew has evaporated. I spoke to the shop concerning the installation of the last drive disk and they stated that the clearances were met. My guess is that the drive disk which seems to be made from plastic and not rubber may be part of the problem. When the mower had the symptoms last, I stood the mower on end and the rotor disk was very hot and the drive disk was very pliable. Maybe the contact material on the drive disk is getting too hot to have enough friction on the spinning rotor.

This thread opens with one of the most ludicrous yarns (no pun intended!) I've ever read on the internet. And I've been on the internet for a LONG time. A cup of alcohol, dissolved into even the small volume of water used in a front loader, is going to be reduced in concentration well below the threshold of flammability. EVEN if you just poured a cup of 91% isopropyl onto WET clothing, just before a spin cycle, I doubt the vapor pressure of the alcohol would ever get high enough to ignite if you placed a spark igniter IN the wash basin! This chart is for ethanol but it's probably similar for other simple alcohols. There's no way the concentration is such scenarios as the OPs was above 5% - or anywhere near it, So, the interior of the washing machine would have to have been >> 140F for spark ignition. https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/ethanol-water-d_989.html They are gone now (probably a good thing) but for this scenario to take place as described a MUCH more flammable substance had to be involved, and probably more of it than a cup. Obviously, based on the traits that can cause 'laundry fires', there's always a way to safely remove organic solvents that are flammable. Anything with a high enough vapor pressure to form explosive mixtures with water, can be removed by just letting the clothes air out, outside, for a couple sunny days in summer. If your functioning nose doesn't smell anything anymore and you don't feel any oiliness, there isn't enough there anymore to cause a problem after wet laundering. I myself have spilled 4 cycle gasoline on jeans, probably over 1 cup, and safely laundered them. Letting the gasoline dry out, and then use a hot water wash cycle, standard laundry detergent, and TSP (as described in other threads here) to make sure the oil is emulsified and removed. (Ammonia would probably work almost as well) I smelled them before drying. No hydrocarbon smell left at all. That being said, if I had some completely ridiculous scenario like a pair of jeans that had been soaked in kerosene - a fuel that stinks but is slower to evaporate - I'd probably just throw them out.

2500 to pull the stack and fix the roof?? Must be nice making all that ...? We just had a stack and interior attic chimney pulled out of a 3 story house with roof and floor repair included for under $500.00. He climbed on the roof during another job they were doing and just started tossing bricks into the yard. In the inside, he continued down to the floor. Ten feet inside to the ceiling, plus another 5' that was over the roof. He patched the roof with plywood and boards under it. Patched the floor up clean and nice. Whole job took under 4 hours. The chimney was leaning inside the attic and also leaked around the roof. House is 40 feet high and 130 years old.

I read about asbestos, but the house was built in 1986 and the basement finished in mid 90's. I think the dangers of asbestos were well known by then. I will start with the razor scraper. Thanks.