Run off from driveway to yard
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Comments (6)With the engine idling, The throttle plate is just about closed and most of the fuel is delivered through the carburetor idle circuit. At high speed the throttle plate has opened only slightly and some fuel is still delivered through the idle circuit. Some fuel is starting to be delivered through the main fuel circuit. When a load is delivered, the governor further opens the throttle plate to maintain rpm. In this position, most of the fuel is now coming from the main circuit. The surging occurs when the idle circuit is not able to deliver enought fuel. The engine wants to die - but the governer senses the rpm drop and opens the throttle plate - receiving additional fuel from the main circuit. The engine speeds up and then the governor closes the throttle plate. If your carburetor is equipped with a Idle adjustment screw, open it about 1/8 of a turn and see what happens. If there is no idle adjustment screw, the internal idle passages are partially blocked with fuel varnish or perhaps dirt. Sometimes it is hard to clean this with carburetor spray cleaner unless the carburetor is disassembled. As previously suggested - changing the fuel filter - if equipped - may help in preventing recurrance. Be careful with old fuel hoses as some rubber may crumlble on the inside of the line and enter your carburetor....See Morevistas: front yard and driveway
Comments (5)in the conifer forum.. there is a vista post about the middle pasture ..... which would be everything behind the ladder ... having grown up on a 55 x 110 lot .... with houses about 15 feet apart .... i cant tell you how i feel when i go back to see ma and pa ... and what will fly when i move back to suburbia ... oink ken...See MoreBest way to run security camera down 800ft. driveway
Comments (9)Yosemitebill, Dang Yosemite, the search function on this site either sucks or my way of searching sucks. Anyhow, I've been trying to see what your take is on LCD vs Plasma tv's. I promised my family I would buy a 50 or 55 inch tv for the family room wall. I was looking at the LED/LCD from what I had been reading here and listening to peoples opinions. Is there any way I could get you to change your stance on not getting involved in the debate. An opinion from a real professional would really help me out!!! I'm sure the thing would get turned on and stay on for a lot of the day on weekends. During the week, it would probably only get turned on in the evenings for a few hours. I'm looking for the best type to hold up under those conditions. None of us are too picky about having the feeling of "being there" we just want a good picture on a tv that would last awhile. One of us will be watching cartoons, 2 teens will be watching a variety of stuff, rock concerts I'm sure will be in that mix. The rest of us are into History, Nat Geo, Documentaries, Sci-Fi, Shootem/cussem-up movies, and infrequently, some varying types of high profile sports. pleeeease????...See MoreGarage, driveway in your yard?
Comments (13)I live in Maine, so outdoor surfaces can get a beating. I did the concrete floor of the porch 6 years ago and had to re-tint part of it last year. The porch is roofed, but does get snow blown all over it and needs to be shoveled on occasion, and it's the main entry into the house. My husband was sure it would wear off quickly and kept saying I'd regret it, but now he's glad I did it and himself suggested I do the front door steps the same way. What I did on my porch would not work for a driveway, way too much surface for one thing, that's why I suggested nice big flagstones. For my porch I used those little bottles of acrylic paint you can get at an art or craft store. I blended colors to get the shade of brick I wanted, then thinned the paint with water to turn it into a stain. Next I cut a large sponge to the size of a brick's surface, more or less. Then I marked out some straight lines across my porch to use as guides so that my bricks wouldn't go higgeldy-piggeldy all over the place. (I'm considered to be a pretty good artist, but I can't draw a straight line for beans, always need rulers, t-squares, etc). I got myself a tray for my stain, lots of newspapers for my mess and paper towels and more newspaper for blotting the excess stain off my sponge "brick". Before trying any faux technique always practice, practice. The stain can't be too wet or it will "bleed" all over your concrete, and if it's too thick it will look like PAINT. Start by dampening your sponge with water, squeeze the water out, it should be just DAMP. I poured some of the stain in the tray, not a lot, then dabbed the sponge in it so that the surface was covered with color, then I blotted off the excess on papers. I touched the sponge with bated breath to the concrete and lifted up, voila, a brick sized looking rectangle. I touched the brick to the concrete again, leaving a gap of about 3/8" for the "mortar" between the bricks. You can usually get 3 to 5 bricks from one dabbing in the stain. I did this all over the porch. Sometimes you may find your stain got a bit too wet, or you pressed the sponge down a tad too hard and you'll get some bleed. Tear off a bit of paper towel and immediately blot and rub off the overbleed. Any little bit of color will not be noticible when you're done. REMEMBER YOU PRACTICED THIS FIRST. Now comes the really important part. You look down and say, "Well, it does sorta look like brick". When you're done step one, you take your stain and add a bit of color to it. I blended burnt sienna, a red, and a yellow to get the color brick I wanted. I added a bit of another shade of brown, burnt umber, and blended that into my brick color. I next took an inexpensve brush, about 1 1/2" wide and dipped it into my new stain and started to gently brush a bit of the stain onto the "brick" You don't have to be neat about it, the color is not supposed to cover the whole thing. It should sort of just wash over the rectangle here and there. After you've done a few you should see just what I mean. Some bricks I painted over once, some twice, some were twice mainly on one end. It sounds goofy as I write it, but it's what makes it look more real. When I was finished I stood back and re-applied more stain wherever I thought it needed it. I was tempted to seal it with something like Thompson's waterproof sealer, but when I talked to the paint guy he thought that if I ever did get any water in under the sealer somewhere it would ruin the whole thing, so I left it alone. When I did the front steps I tried "Patio paint", since it was meant to bear up under the elements, and my porch gets constant inundations of water, snow and ice. The patio paint didn't do as well as my regular acrylic did. You could adapt my method to flagstones if you feel artistic and want to give it a try. You should prep the surface and use a tough concrete stain, as you'll get a lot of scuffing from bikes and toys alone. You could draw out the stones with a pencil and use a larger brush to apply several layers of slightly different colored stains. You start with your one base color and just apply a bit of another color to it to alter the shade slightly. PRACTICE, PRACTICE, makes perfect....See Morel_d_g
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