I bet it is those little tin shrouds! If it wasn't dark I would go check that right now. Or something between the shrouds and the engine fins. I'm thinking the screws might have vibrated loose. I kicked the electric PTO on and off just to make sure it was engageing, but it was off both times I heard the .....tink. As a sub topic, do you guys idle down your engine before turning it off, or just kill it at full throttle. I usualy just turn mine off when I get it back in the garage/barn. I killed it from a slow idle once and it backfired. Only time it ever did that. Bro in law is comming over today, we will check all your suggestions first. Thanks Colt

I am glad y'all survived. Part of Kansas has or has had a PDS (Particularly Dangerous Situation) Tornado Warning or Warnings already today and one comment on Dr. M's blog at wunderground mentioned that NE OK better be watching because their area is right for storm development like what is occurring in Kansas. I have no idea if the person making that comment knows what he or she is talking about though. I bet you got oodles of rain. My rainfall total practically never is the same as my mesonet station's, but often is close to our NWS Co-op Oberserver's totals because he's just a couple of miles NW of us. The heat is one reason I didn't cover up very much yet. With sunlight, which is rare so far today but still likely to make its way through the clouds now and then, I was afraid anything under buckets or sheet plastic would heat up. Around 3 o'clock I might start covering up stuff. I need to go outside and gather up lawn furniture and squeeze it into the garage or potting shed. Y'all don't need any sunlight there. It will just heat up the atmosphere and increase instability. Make that sunshine go away! You know how it works. If I cover up stuff, no hail will fall. If I don't cover up stuff, we'll be slammed by hail. So, apparently covering up plants prevents hail and I'd better do it. I hate covering up and uncovering stuff and have mostly avoided it this year. I guess there's days you just have to do it. I always tell Tim if he'd just build me a Bio-Dome type covering over my garden, I could ignore the weather and not have to cover up plants. I guess I'll never talk him into it. I didn't sleep much last night either. No storms were near me, but I was worried about where the storms were, and also about today. I expect less sleep tonight. If I could sleep in the tornado shelter, I'd do it, but I know from experience that I cannot close my eyes and sleep in there because I am sure that a snake or a black widow or a mouse will find me, even though I have thoroughly searched the shelter and none of those are even present in it. I guess I have too many creepy memories of our next-door-neighbor's old storm shelter left over from when I was a kid. It was dark and I think he must have left the door open all the time because it always had creepy crawly things in it.

I've never used Thunderbird, so I'm guessing here. on my email, when I choose print from the file menu a box comes up and I have the option of choosing which pages I want to print, so if the second page had nothing that I wanted, I would choose to print only page 1. Or perhaps print to file, then print from there after making adjustments. Or copy/paste to your word processing program once, then print however many copies you need. I've done that before, when I wanted to clean up the email. Like I said, I'm just guessing. Don't know if this fits your needs.

I would strongly lean towards fixing it. Start by finding out what brand it is, then call the mfr. and request the replacement parts. Many have a lifetime warranty so they should be free. If you can't wait, just hire someone. They can probaly buy the parts locally. Moen and Delta parts are easy to get. I recently had to repair an American Standard shower valve and had to order the parts from the mfr. (free, but still had to wait).