ikr, it's one thing having a crapload of stuff, and another to be able to find something

I was the same with pinball and arcade games parts. I had several dozen coin doors and drawers full of coin door parts I collected over decades as a professional game tech. You name the game and I most likely had parts for them. Most from games to damaged to save that I stripped for parts. In Florida it's termites, water , vandals damaged and gorillas moving equipment that caused the most damage. I worked on them 40 years. I remember unboxing new Ms. Pac Man games

Yes, keeping track of your stash of used "inventory".

This comment and the replies are totally getting it right on. The combination of used stuff and ability to use the stuff is one of the things that makes our internet friend Darren so seemingly rare and interesting to watch.

Better have a system in the junk than have junk in your system

I would say some what.., but not exactly true. There are a lot of us DIY guys on this channel and I would venture to guess, most of (us) them live in suburban areas. You are either a city man or your not. We are talking two entirely different species, one guy owns casual and dress clothes while the other owns t-shirts and jeans. One guy uses two thumbs to make a living while the other uses both hands. One guy has a garage full of Christmas decorations, boxes of used casual clothes and golf bags while the other got tools, gadgets and random stuff.

It's largely because the products are disposable and when something doesn't run, it gets kicked to the curb. Back in the day men fixed more things because they were designed to be serviceable. He's an analog man living in a digital world. Mustie is a rare species but not an extinct species.

@@Hjerte_Verke 90% of everything that Mustie repairs is from being left outside and no maintenance.

Takes a lifetime to accumulate a working shop like that. Not to mention the knowledge base.

@@willhughes2196 Probably for me or you but not necessarily for him. I would think since Mustie has gained such a large YT following over the past 8 or 9 years he's been inundated with emails, phone calls with offers of limitless free stuff that we don't hear about. Mustie is a junk magnet, junk finds him. At one point I would say it was how he made a living, by now its most likely a hobby, a side line from YT revenue and its the kind of distraction that he obviously enjoys. I think there was an episode where he talked about building his own motorized bicycles as a kid and showed all the ones he currently has so yes, I totally agee, he's been around a lot of small engines for a long time. Its definitely FUBAR if Mustie can't fix it.

ironically that only works because several 100k watch and make it economically feasible.

Making old stuff operable is maximum green. Many recommend(Scotty K.) that the greenest car is an older Toyota gasoline car that you keep on the road for several hundred thousand more miles. Many of the newer things that are supposed to be green have failure rates so high that they wear out very quickly. There is pollution for building the device in the first place. If it doesn't last then you have to build another one. If the so called green device does not last long enough to save enough energy to "pay back" the cost of having to build and install it's replacement then it ain't green. warrantee three times in the last 5 years. I'm not sure what I will do when it hits 5 years.

glad to see someone beside me thinks sports on TV are way overrated. and overpaid for playing games.

Dear Jason 5150mxVW 👍👌👏 Always nice to meet you here. 2) Yes, you are right, it's powerful enough. If a cross shaped splitting wedge would be added, it could really be a very usable device. With this single wedge, splitting wood is simply too time and fuel consuming. Hope that you are fully recovered from that extremely exhausting rescue mission. Best regards, luck and health in particular.

@@Chr.U.Cas1622 Well this is a homeowner series machine, meant for casual "splitting one tree per use" and not an industrial type machine meant to run all day so that's why it it only has one wedge. Adding a cross probably means upping the size of the machine and the horsepower rating (up to 8 HP). Too bad people just don't have any time anymore, eh? Make time and quit complaining about the small things.

@@Hjerte_Verke Now look at that! What do we have here? Doesn't it suspiciously look like a camouflaged, little but nevertheless typical internet troll/hater? Someone showing in public that he wouldn't upgrade (easily done by the way) a device to save time, money and, most important fuel! So less fuel consumption = less environmental pollution and noise reduction (also very important nowadays!) means nothing to him!? He would rather bother his neighbours and environment than using his mind!? 2) The over 6hp strong engine is already an upgrade and therefore more than capable to be used in combination with a cross splitting wedge. Best regards, luck, health and wisdom in particular.

That carb looked very doubtful. But no problem for the carb whisperer.

A lesson for us all to "make do with what you have" and to remember "this isn't the Space Shuttle" (A Taryl-ism) requiring perfection in every small part.

Morning

Good afternoon

It’s 10:00 am.

@@danshaw6759 midday in the U.K. 👍👌🇮🇲

Good Afternoon from Niagara Falls Ontario Canada

It's actually 2 hours plus by minutes. That's even better. No such thing as a to long Mustie1 episode. We can always pause it, get lunch and pee break then hit play. It's what I did about 56 minutes in.

Good morning

The hing pins for a flote that i have seen are closer to the size of a small paper clip.

Overcast here but hot cup of coffee and a few smokes and enjoying :)

How about a 1 quart cup of Folgers black silk coffee black, YUM. lol

Weather doesn't matter, Sunday morning with Musti1 and a cup of coffee is a tradition at my house.

or a finish nail instead of wooden dowel, cut slot etc.

Another idea is since he has a drill bit that is just a little small, he could slather a bit of lapping compound on the smooth shaft and spin it by hand to polish the i.d.

I was going to reply this exact thing till I saw yours.

I think torch tip cleaners are what he meant when he said people were sending him pipe cleaners. Pipe cleaners are way too large for carburetor orifices. I think Mustie has a set of torch tip cleaners but he was showing us how to get by with common means.

@@Hjerte_Verke I thought that too, but he said they weren’t small enough. The ones I have are easily as small or smaller than a bristle from a metal brush.

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I never used a splitter , we had a maul and a wedge .

You had a wedge your parents cared lol

Heated with wood for 25 years , never used a power splitter . Armstronged every cord of wood .

Value when considering my old, broken, and repaired spine: priceless!

The handful of times I've split fire wood, I found the majority of the discomfort came from moving the heavier unsplit pieces around... Which you still have to do with these anyway. Probably varies from person to person based on body shape and general fitness of different muscle groups, but for me, it was always moving the wood that sucked.

I was surprised to see it was a flathead. The blower shroud styling says "early 2000s" when Briggs was supposed to have stopped making flatheads (about 10 years before) because of the evil EPA. But it's probably much older.

@@Hjerte_VerkeI think they made Quantum until about 2013. It would have to be a pressure washer engine, not a lawnmower because the lawnmower blade is the flywheel.

Yeah, or a lack of water.

"...then a strand of wire brush." ?

@@manolisgledsodakis873 typo for "than"

@@manolisgledsodakis873 Or a strand of multi-stranded electrical wiring? No need for "special tools" when a strand of soft copper or brass wire will do the job and also give you less risk of changing the metering hole size by overzealous use of abrasive torch tip cleaners. I think Mustie has a set but he is showing us how to fix engines with common everyday items.

Good morning after noon to you

the rod side has less volume the bigger dia. of the rod the less volume.

I was shouting that at my laptop screen as he was trying to 'wash it through with gas'! Yeah, the meths trick helps to get water out of float bowls too, if you can find a hole to get the stuff in there. It doesn't take a lot to do it either, and the end result mixes with the gas and goes through the jets just fine. Been there done that with a few different automotive carbs.

isopropyl alcohol also works to bind the water

I was about to make the same comment. Pays to check the comments first! Probably had a sleeve like the other two did. MJ

Worth $200 easily. You got the video 📹 for future trouble shooting

Combination of both for me. I don't think this model is capable of vertical splits, so wrasslin' huge rounds up to the splitting deck is a giant pain in the....back.😉. Plus, as long as i ain't too whooped yet, a good splitting maul is waaay faster on (what looks like) maple he's splittin'. I'd probably still try a maul to get halves or quarters on huge rounds before hurting myself lifting. This little splitter is short so that helps

ATF *is* hydraulic fluid 🙂

@@thedevilinthecircuit1414 Yes but he was saying ATF is too thin. That's what it called for.

The fluid was more pink than red, so it had water/ condensation in it. You really notice it when it happens in garden tractors that use it for the hydrostatic/hydros. They'll barely even lift the cylinders if it's bad enough.

My Toyota van uses Dextron III in the power steering pump.

Is it Marty T from New Zealand? 🙂

@@PuchMaxi I want to say his name is Mark Presling from Australia but just spent a good while trying to locate that video where he reveals his techniques to sonic cleaning but there were so many videos...

@@greavous93 Thanks, I think you are right! I'm subscribed to Preso too 😄

Yes, I priced up making something like that and those hydraulic parts are quite expensive.

and get silicosis, yaaaaay

Then crushed walnut shell media is better then?

I use baking soda for gun parts and internal engine parts. It washes off readily and doesn't leave anything to eat the engine up. You could probably even hit the jet with it.

@@Frank-Thoresen hey frank where'd that comment about "glass not sand" go :3

Good catch, I missed it!

That didn't make any sense to me.

@@mountainman5025 It was a reference to the cocaine found in the Whitehouse.