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TOPIC: Stupid Scam
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== 1 of 3 ==
Date: Mon, Jul 5 2010 11:31 pm
From: "friesian@zoocrewphoto.com"
On Jul 4, 11:38 am, "Rod Speed" <rod.speed....@gmail.com> wrote:
> fries...@zoocrewphoto.com wrote:
> > Rod Speed <rod.speed....@gmail.com> wrote
> >> Then use an account in a bank that you only use for that sort of
> >> thing, and just close it after you get the cash and want to protect
> >> yourself against it bouncing later. Thats then the bank's problem.
> >> Not a shred of rocket science whatever required.
> > Don't you know that the bank can still go after you?
>
> Not if they cant identify you they cant.
>
And how do you open an account at a bank without them being able to
identify you? You suggested above that we open an account, cash the
check, and close the account. I don't know of any bank that will open
an account without valid ID.
== 2 of 3 ==
Date: Tues, Jul 6 2010 3:22 am
From: "Rod Speed"
friesian@zoocrewphoto.com wrote
> Rod Speed <rod.speed....@gmail.com> wrote
>> fries...@zoocrewphoto.com wrote
>>> Rod Speed <rod.speed....@gmail.com> wrote
>>>> Then use an account in a bank that you only use for that sort of
>>>> thing, and just close it after you get the cash and want to protect
>>>> yourself against it bouncing later. Thats then the bank's problem.
>>>> Not a shred of rocket science whatever required.
>>> Don't you know that the bank can still go after you?
>> Not if they cant identify you they cant.
> And how do you open an account at a bank without them being able to identify you?
You use false details, stupid.
> You suggested above that we open an account,
> cash the check, and close the account. I don't know
> of any bank that will open an account without valid ID.
Presumably you actually are that stupid.
Have a look at how illegals do that sometime.
== 3 of 3 ==
Date: Tues, Jul 6 2010 5:48 am
From: "h"
<friesian@zoocrewphoto.com> wrote in message
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>And how do you open an account at a bank without them being able to
>identify you? You suggested above that we open an account, cash the
>check, and close the account. I don't know of any bank that will open
>an account without valid ID.
Again, the only way to do this is to go to the bank upon which the check is
drawn and cash the check. Also, you SHOULD NOT have any accounts there, or
they will come after you if it bounces. You need to walk out with green
money and no paper trail, and you're set. If there is no local branch, don't
take the check. Accepting credit cards is expensive, accepting PayPal is
REALLY expensive, but they are the safest way to go since cash only works
for in-person sales.
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== 1 of 7 ==
Date: Tues, Jul 6 2010 5:04 am
From: "john hamilton"
Whats the most reasonably priced and easily arranged (i.e. frequent cheap
flights and easy transport at the destination end) weeks holiday break at
the sea side, in Spain or similar nearby country; for an elderly couple
living in the London area? Thanks for advice.
== 2 of 7 ==
Date: Tues, Jul 6 2010 5:47 am
From: AndyS
On Jul 6, 7:04 am, "john hamilton" <bluesta...@mail.invalid> wrote:
> Whats the most reasonably priced and easily arranged (i.e. frequent cheap
> flights and easy transport at the destination end) weeks holiday break at
> the sea side, in Spain or similar nearby country; for an elderly couple
> living in the London area? Thanks for advice.
Andy comments:
I would reccomment St Laurent du Var, on the French
mediterranean...
Andy in Eureka, Texas
== 3 of 7 ==
Date: Tues, Jul 6 2010 6:19 am
From: "Jan"
Firstly I'd work out which of the London Airports they want to fly from,
then look online at possible destinations.
Do they want to book each part independently or take a package? If it's a
package then get your travel agent to do the research.
Jan
"AndyS" <andysharpe@juno.com> wrote in message
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> On Jul 6, 7:04 am, "john hamilton" <bluesta...@mail.invalid> wrote:
>> Whats the most reasonably priced and easily arranged (i.e. frequent cheap
>> flights and easy transport at the destination end) weeks holiday break at
>> the sea side, in Spain or similar nearby country; for an elderly couple
>> living in the London area? Thanks for advice.
>
> Andy comments:
>
> I would reccomment St Laurent du Var, on the French
> mediterranean...
>
> Andy in Eureka, Texas
== 4 of 7 ==
Date: Tues, Jul 6 2010 11:20 am
From: "tim...."
"john hamilton" <bluestar95@mail.invalid> wrote in message
news:i0v654$1gn$1@news.eternal-september.org...
> Whats the most reasonably priced and easily arranged (i.e. frequent cheap
> flights and easy transport at the destination end) weeks holiday break at
> the sea side, in Spain or similar nearby country; for an elderly couple
> living in the London area? Thanks for advice.
The easiest has to be flying to Malaga and staying at one of the resorts on
the local train service between there and Fuengirola but these are not the
prettiest of resorts.
A nicer idea is to fly to Faro and use the local train to one of the
resorts. But here you have to catch a bus or take a taxi from the airport
to Faro station (you can get a taxi all the way but it isn't going to be
cheap). It is possible to stay in Faro, but as it's behind the lagoon it
doesn't really have a beach that you can walk to, but then you can use the
bus/train to get along the coast. (I can recommend the Hotel Faro for it's
central location near the bus/train station - don't book the Ibis it's miles
from anywhere that you would want to get to.)
Both airport have lots of Easyjet services from more than one of the London
airports
tim
== 5 of 7 ==
Date: Tues, Jul 6 2010 1:10 pm
From: "Derek F"
"john hamilton" <bluestar95@mail.invalid> wrote in message
news:i0v654$1gn$1@news.eternal-september.org...
> Whats the most reasonably priced and easily arranged (i.e. frequent cheap
> flights and easy transport at the destination end) weeks holiday break at
> the sea side, in Spain or similar nearby country; for an elderly couple
> living in the London area? Thanks for advice.
>
How elderly? Fit eldery? Savvy elderly?
Malaga airport has a good train service to local resorts.The area though is
full of scammers and pickpockets.
Lagos and Tavira have excellent reasonablt priced 4&5 star hotels and can be
reached by train from Faro.
Estoril might be an option if they want a quiet place. Easy Jet fly to
Lisbon. Bus from airport to station and thirty minutes to Estoril on trains
that are now very safe with security guards and police on all trains.
Malta might be an option and has good bus services around the island.
Derek.
eviera
== 6 of 7 ==
Date: Tues, Jul 6 2010 2:20 pm
From: d4g4h4@yahoo.co.uk (David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*))
tim.... <tims_new_home@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> "john hamilton" <bluestar95@mail.invalid> wrote in message
> news:i0v654$1gn$1@news.eternal-september.org...
> > Whats the most reasonably priced and easily arranged (i.e. frequent cheap
> > flights and easy transport at the destination end) weeks holiday break at
> > the sea side, in Spain or similar nearby country; for an elderly couple
> > living in the London area? Thanks for advice.
>
> The easiest has to be flying to Malaga and staying at one of the resorts on
> the local train service between there and Fuengirola but these are not the
> prettiest of resorts.
Barcelona has resorts easily accessible by train (and also bus) too.
Pretty easy to take the bus from Malaga to other resorts- e.g. Nerja.
I generally find it slightly easier to get cheaper flights to Barcelona
than Malaga but YMMV.
--
(*) of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate
www.davidhorne.net (email address on website)
"[Do you think the world learned anything from the first
world war?] No. They never learn." -Harry Patch (1898-2009)
== 7 of 7 ==
Date: Tues, Jul 6 2010 4:11 pm
From: Jack Campin - bogus address
>>> Whats the most reasonably priced and easily arranged (i.e. frequent cheap
>>> flights and easy transport at the destination end) weeks holiday break at
>>> the sea side, in Spain or similar nearby country; for an elderly couple
>>> living in the London area?
> Barcelona has resorts easily accessible by train (and also bus) too.
> Pretty easy to take the bus from Malaga to other resorts- e.g. Nerja.
> I generally find it slightly easier to get cheaper flights to Barcelona
> than Malaga but YMMV.
They opened some new terminal areas at Barcelona airport early this year.
The result was that if you fly Easyjet you're in for a hell of a long
walk and with very poor signposting. Better ensure that this couple can
handle that.
As a city destination (it doesn't have much seaside) Barcelona itself
makes a lot of sense for an elderly couple, as its public transport
system is very easy to use.
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Tues, Jul 6 2010 5:13 am
From: brad herschel
On Jul 6, 8:11 am, brad herschel <bradhersc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 5, 8:15 pm, Steve from Colorado <gass...@hushmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > Thank an immigrant and the Democratic / Republican parties for the
> > high levels of unemployment and declining wages. Illegal aliens and
> > workers from India will work for less with fewer or no benefits than
> > you, an American will. No wonder the Chamber of Commerce hates
> > American workers.
>
> >http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/787...
>
> > With the US trapped in depression, this really is starting to feel
> > like 1932
> > The US workforce shrank by 652,000 in June, one of the sharpest
> > contractions ever. The rate of hourly earnings fell 0.1pc. Wages are
> > flirting with deflation.
>
> > "The economy is still in the gravitational pull of the Great
> > Recession," said Robert Reich, former US labour secretary. "All the
> > booster rockets for getting us beyond it are failing."
>
> > Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: Comment
>
> > "Home sales are down. Retail sales are down. Factory orders in May
> > suffered their biggest tumble since March of last year. So what are we
> > doing about it? Less than nothing," he said.
>
> > California is tightening faster than Greece. State workers have seen a
> > 14pc fall in earnings this year due to forced furloughs. Governor
> > Arnold Schwarzenegger is cutting pay for 200,000 state workers to the
> > minimum wage of $7.25 an hour to cover his $19bn (£15bn) deficit.
>
> > Can Illinois be far behind? The state has a deficit of $12bn and is
> > $5bn in arrears to schools, nursing homes, child care centres, and
> > prisons. "It is getting worse every single day," said state
> > comptroller Daniel Hynes. "We are not paying bills for absolutely
> > essential services. That is obscene."
>
> > Roughly a million Americans have dropped out of the jobs market
> > altogether over the past two months. That is the only reason why the
> > headline unemployment rate is not exploding to a post-war high.
>
> > Let us be honest. The US is still trapped in depression a full 18
> > months into zero interest rates, quantitative easing (QE), and fiscal
> > stimulus that has pushed the budget deficit above 10pc of GDP.
>
> > The share of the US working-age population with jobs in June actually
> > fell from 58.7pc to 58.5pc. This is the real stress indicator. The
> > ratio was 63pc three years ago. Eight million jobs have been lost.
>
> > The average time needed to find a job has risen to a record 35.2
> > weeks. Nothing like this has been seen before in the post-war era.
> > Jeff Weninger, of Harris Private Bank, said this compares with a peak
> > of 21.2 weeks in the Volcker recession of the early 1980s.
>
> > "Legions of individuals have been left with stale skills, and little
> > prospect of finding meaningful work, and benefits that are being
> > exhausted. By our math the crop of people who are unemployed but not
> > receiving a check amounts to 9.2m."
>
> > Republicans on Capitol Hill are filibustering a bill to extend the
> > dole for up to 1.2m jobless facing an imminent cut-off. Dean Heller
> > from Vermont called them "hobos". This really is starting to feel like
> > 1932.
>
> > Washington's fiscal stimulus is draining away. It peaked in the first
> > quarter, yet even then the economy eked out a growth rate of just
> > 2.7pc. This compares with 5.1pc, 9.3pc, 8.1pc and 8.5pc in the four
> > quarters coming off recession in the early 1980s.
>
> > The housing market is already crumbling as government props are pulled
> > away. The expiry of homebuyers' tax credit led to a 30pc fall in the
> > number of buyers signing contracts in May. "It is cataclysmic," said
> > David Bloom from HSBC.
>
> > Federal tax rises are automatically baked into the pie. The
> > Congressional Budget Office said fiscal policy will swing from
> > a net +2pc of GDP to -2pc by late 2011. The states and counties may
> > have to cut as much as $180bn.
>
> > Investors are starting to chew over the awful possibility that
> > America's recovery will stall just as Asia hits the buffers. China's
> > manufacturing index has been falling since January, with a downward
> > lurch in June to 50.4, just above the break-even line of 50. Momentum
> > seems to be flagging everywhere, whether in Australian building
> > permits, Turkish exports, or Japanese industrial output.
>
> > On Friday, Jacques Cailloux from RBS put out a "double-dip alert" for
> > Europe. "The risk is rising fast. Absent an effective policy
> > intervention to tackle the debt crisis on the periphery over coming
> > months, the European economy will double dip in 2011," he said.
>
> > It is obvious what that policy should be for Europe, America, and
> > Japan. If budgets are to shrink in an orderly fashion over several
> > years – as they must, to avoid sovereign debt spirals – then central
> > banks will have to cushion the blow keeping monetary policy ultra-
> > loose for as long it takes.
>
> > The Fed is already eyeing the printing press again. "It's appropriate
> > to think about what we would do under a deflationary scenario," said
> > Dennis Lockhart for the Atlanta Fed. His colleague Kevin Warsh said
> > the pros and cons of purchasing more bonds should be subject to
> > "strict scrutiny", a comment I took as confirmation that the Fed Board
> > is arguing internally about QE2.
>
> > Perhaps naively, I still think central banks have the tools to head
> > off disaster. The question is whether they will do so fast enough, or
> > even whether they wish to resist the chorus of 1930s liquidation
> > taking charge of the debate. Last week the Bank for International
> > Settlements called for combined fiscal and monetary tightening,
> > lending its great authority to the forces of debt-deflation and mass
> > unemployment. If even the BIS has lost the plot, God help us.
>
> Our government is proving that it will not handle large problems if
> it involves possibly offending some ethnic minority group.
>
> http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/ The Occidental Observer- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Tues, Jul 6 2010 6:36 am
From: "His Highness the TibetanMonkey, Creator of the Movement of Tantra-
Hammock"
(You think the only problem is a Crusade on Drugs? Not so. The Crusade
on Alcohol is very much alive, but now it has become profitable)
On Jul 6, 9:05 am, "His Highness the TibetanMonkey, Creator of the
Movement of Tantra-Hammock" <nolionnoprob...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Jul 5, 10:48 pm, "Criminal Drivers Murder 40,000 Americans a Year"
>
> <xeton2...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > On Jul 4, 10:29 am, "His Highness the TibetanMonkey, Creator of the
> > Movement of Tantra-Hammock" <nolionnoprob...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > > MADD is looking for perfection on alcohol, but not on driving across
> > > the board. For example, TALKING ON THE PHONE is far more dangerous and
> > > prevalent and yet they are OK with it.
>
> > I doubt if they are OK with cell driving. It's just not their bag.
> > They fight drunk driving and let others fight against cell driving or
> > speeding or red light running.
>
> See, nice excuse, but we have a need for an overhaul on our roads.
>
> It seems like they are on a profitable Christian crusade.
The police is also engaged on a profitable campaign against speeders.
Not Christian, but profitable. They set up a speed trap, and they are
ready to make drivers part with their money.
And yet people take chances because then they go to the lawyer and he
finds a way to fight for you, and make you part with more money.
See, I've said the Christians are to blame for everything, just that
they are happy with the status quo, which shows indifference for this
mundane world.
I don't want to get philosophical here. ;)
== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Tues, Jul 6 2010 3:34 pm
From: "His Highness the TibetanMonkey, Creator of the Movement of Tantra-
Hammock"
On Jul 6, 5:07 pm, B Sellers <bl...@sfo.com> wrote:
> On 07/06/2010 01:24 PM, His Highness the TibetanMonkey,
>
> > PE trainers though are really important jobs to keep the young people
> > busy on something else other than drugs and crime.
>
> Yes the PE teachers and requirements are very important and
> needed a witness the epidemic of youth obesity.
> I don't even like PE for my own experiences but without it being
> a requirement in schools the kids have gotten sloppily fat. The
> proper education of children almost demands PE and it along with
> other needed programs like art and music have been dropped in
> order that dopers can be locked up.
Riding a bicycle could do the job of a PE trainer, but we want a job
for him, right?
>
>
>
> > Then we issue a hammock to whoever is left jobless.
>
> You may issue a hammock but in the USA most places we
> need a lot more than a system to ruin our backs, You need
> something to hook the hammock to when you want to sleep
> and I doubt that parking meter standards are up to the stress.
>
> Then we need facilities for nutrition and excretion and in
> most of the USA for a substantial portion of each year we need
> shelter from the heat of Summer and the cold of Winter and in
> Alaska the Winter is most of the year.
>
> later
> bliss
Then we need igloos for Alaska, and Hammocks for the summer in the
Lower 49.
The point is that we plant a lot of trees and consume as little energy
as possible, short of riding a bike, which is nearly impossible under
the current lawless conditions on the roads.
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Tues, Jul 6 2010 9:32 am
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Excerpt:
(snip)
If you value your privacy, you may have the option to collect your
winnings without a news conference, although your name and hometown
typically must be made public.
Another tip: Get an unlisted phone number as soon as you can. People
from around the globe are going to try to reach out and touch you for
loans, gifts, charitable contributions and funding for their great
business ideas.
Get your team together. At a minimum, you'll need an accountant, a
lawyer and a financial planner. Don't expect much help from the
lottery itself, because it can't risk the legal liability of offering
advice. Plenty of financial professionals will offer to assist you --
Lang said he and his co-winners received "hundreds" of pitches from
financial advisers of all stripes -- but without significant research
you won't be able to tell the crooks and incompetents from those who
know what they're talking about.
Lang said many of his encounters with these advisers weren't good. One
lawyer told Lang he could quickly prepare a trust for $17,000 -- a
trust Lang actually had done for $2,500. A financial adviser Lang
interviewed but opted not to use sent him a bill for $450.
"I sat in his office and drank a bottled water, and he wanted me to
pay $450," Lang said. "I asked him to itemize what he did for me that
was worth $450, and I never heard from him again."
You may not be able to rely on friends and family for referrals,
unless your nearest and dearest happen to be multimillionaires with
advisers skilled in managing big sums. You may instead want to find
out who advises the wealthy in your community and start your
interviews there. But don't assume the rich always know what they're
doing. Think Bernie Madoff.
(snip)
Lenona.
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TOPIC: Why not put an electrical copper wire into the weed whacker?
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== 1 of 3 ==
Date: Tues, Jul 6 2010 11:52 am
From: GHenry
On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 11:04:17 -0700 (PDT), keith wrote:
> I have the Troy-Bilt 4-cycle trimmer with a leaf blower & edger attachments.
> They work really well.
Mine is a two stroke so it's probably different. But, it's good to know
that the edger actually works "very well". I might consider getting one.
As for leaf blowers, I ended up with the huge backpack two-stroke 180mph
Echo, which does a decent enough job.
I've had a whole series of two-stroke lawn vacuum/blowers (the type that
has that long nozzle and bag) but almost always:
- The blower is anemic
- The vacuum is pretty good
- But the bag zipper always breaks making the vacuum also useless
Maybe I'll open a separate thread on how to get a better outdoor yard work
vacuum for home. :)
== 2 of 3 ==
Date: Tues, Jul 6 2010 11:54 am
From: GHenry
On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:13:54 -0400, J Burns wrote:
> longer strings wear much faster due to higher tip speeds.
If that's true, it's a trick on me that I added two inches to the 16-inch
string (to make it 18 inches) for the purpose of having the string last
longer ... only to find that it might make the string actually last
shorter! :(
== 3 of 3 ==
Date: Tues, Jul 6 2010 12:10 pm
From: keith
On Jul 6, 1:52 pm, GHenry <GHenr...@aol.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 11:04:17 -0700 (PDT), keith wrote:
> > I have the Troy-Bilt 4-cycle trimmer with a leaf blower & edger attachments.
> > They work really well.
>
> Mine is a two stroke so it's probably different. But, it's good to know
> that the edger actually works "very well". I might consider getting one.
It does the job on my couple of hundred feet of edging each week,
anyway.
> As for leaf blowers, I ended up with the huge backpack two-stroke 180mph
> Echo, which does a decent enough job.
>
> I've had a whole series of two-stroke lawn vacuum/blowers (the type that
> has that long nozzle and bag) but almost always:
> - The blower is anemic
> - The vacuum is pretty good
> - But the bag zipper always breaks making the vacuum also useless
Let me elaborate, a little. I don't use it to blow leaves; got none
(left them behind in Vermont, with the taxes). I use it to blow the
grass clippings off the street and driveway after I do the edging. It
does a nice job of that, and the bark mulch, red sand, and Mica that
inevitably washes out of our flower beds.
> Maybe I'll open a separate thread on how to get a better outdoor yard work
> vacuum for home. :)
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TOPIC: IR home leak imaging
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== 1 of 3 ==
Date: Tues, Jul 6 2010 11:55 am
From: dlzc
On Jul 5, 1:42 pm, vjp2...@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:
> What about a dye that is colorful when wet and white
> when dry, so it could detect leaks in wallks and even
> grout because the leak stays wet longer than the rest?
Rit dye.
David A. Smith
== 2 of 3 ==
Date: Tues, Jul 6 2010 3:01 pm
From: "HeyBub"
vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:
> I knew someone who got some used fancy oilfield devices and imaged
> houses to find leaks using not only infrared but some pretty fancy
> math to compare how the images changed as the temperature changed
> during the day to night cycle. I gotta wonder if this has advanced
> much in the decade since.
>
> I have some siding, poynting and roof leaks, whose repair would be a
> lot less costly if I could get a cheap imaging analysis.
>
>
If you want to experiment with it yourself, consider an appropriate infared
filter for your camera.
== 3 of 3 ==
Date: Tues, Jul 6 2010 3:16 pm
From: don@manx.misty.com (Don Klipstein)
In article <zeCdnaRzpscCOq7RnZ2dnUVZ_tednZ2d@earthlink.com>, HeyBub wrote:
>vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:
>> I knew someone who got some used fancy oilfield devices and imaged
>> houses to find leaks using not only infrared but some pretty fancy
>> math to compare how the images changed as the temperature changed
>> during the day to night cycle. I gotta wonder if this has advanced
>> much in the decade since.
>>
>> I have some siding, poynting and roof leaks, whose repair would be a
>> lot less costly if I could get a cheap imaging analysis.
>
>If you want to experiment with it yourself, consider an appropriate infared
>filter for your camera.
Photographic film and silicon image sensors do not respond to low
temperature thermal infrared. Usually over 99.98% of that is of
wavelengths longer than 3,000 namometers. Film that responds much past
1,000 nanometers is about as common as hairy eggs. Silicon image sensors
only go out to about 1100 nm, faintly to maybe 1300 nm.
--
- Don Klipstein (don@misty.com)
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TOPIC: Do you bother to sharpen your lawn mower blade? Why?
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Tues, Jul 6 2010 2:01 pm
From: "James H."
On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:37:04 -0400, willshak wrote:
> He doesn't advise against removing the blade. He says 'HE" doesn't
> remove it.
Good point.
> Again, he is showing an alternative to sharpening without removing the
> blade. He doesn't say NOT to remove it. Do you have one of those grinders?
Yes. I have a Dewalt grinder just like that, only my stone is new (his was
old and maybe old is better).
I also have dremel tools and files but for now, I think we have our answer
on the sharpening:
a) Some people never sharpen; others do about yearly.
b) It won't make much different; but it might make some difference.
c) Almost everyone removes the blade to sharpen & balance; some don't.
d) Easiest balancing method I've seen is that which the Craftsman manuals
says to do which is to hang the blad on a nail horizontally.
e) A new blade (for my mower) is $14.50 + 10% tax + shipping to CA; while
the nearest Briggs & Stratton shop won't charge less than $45 to sharpen (I
didn't ask about tax) and I have to bring the lawnmower and/or blade to
them.
== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Tues, Jul 6 2010 2:30 pm
From: willshak
James H. wrote the following:
> On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:37:04 -0400, willshak wrote:
>
>
>> He doesn't advise against removing the blade. He says 'HE" doesn't
>> remove it.
>>
>
> Good point.
>
>
>> Again, he is showing an alternative to sharpening without removing the
>> blade. He doesn't say NOT to remove it. Do you have one of those grinders?
>>
>
> Yes. I have a Dewalt grinder just like that, only my stone is new (his was
> old and maybe old is better).
>
> I also have dremel tools and files but for now, I think we have our answer
> on the sharpening:
>
> a) Some people never sharpen; others do about yearly.
> b) It won't make much different; but it might make some difference.
> c) Almost everyone removes the blade to sharpen & balance; some don't.
> d) Easiest balancing method I've seen is that which the Craftsman manuals
> says to do which is to hang the blad on a nail horizontally.
> e) A new blade (for my mower) is $14.50 + 10% tax + shipping to CA; while
> the nearest Briggs & Stratton shop won't charge less than $45 to sharpen (I
> didn't ask about tax) and I have to bring the lawnmower and/or blade to
> them.
>
I remove the one nut holding the blade, which takes about 5 minutes, and
sharpen it with a bench grinder. I have more control on how much to
remove and I am able to balance it.
My 18 x 46 tractor's mower deck has three blades. I remove the whole
deck before winter because I have a snow blower attachment that goes on
the tractor.
I have all winter to remove and sharpen the three blades.
You might be able to get a replacement blade at HD or Lowes. Check
their one-line mower supplies.
--
Bill
In Hamptonburgh, NY
In the original Orange County. Est. 1683
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