@brian Casler check out Andrew camarata years of quality learning and solo off gridish building

Try Marty T as well , tractors and earth moving machinery as well as the glorious scenery of New Zealand . Stay strong .

Same here chief.. BOTH hips are in need of replacement after 40+ years of mechanicing

@@Driftdavillian I remember helping out as a driver just before getting into the trade and one of the long-time stockmen was in that exact position. He was quite a challenge to work with but I knew it wasn’t him; it was the pain talking. I saw him again about 8 months later after having both hips replaced and he was a totally different man. It’s so rewarding to see someone transformed like that; I can only imagine what it would be like to be IN THOSE SHOES(!!!). Stay strong, friend (if you’re still waiting); or hopefully you’ve gotten fixed up. Cheers! 🖖😎👍

Good for you man!

Dang so much work into typing that paragraph and mustie wont like it or care about ur comment😬

Former Briggs tech here. Come winter, get some pump saver or rv antifreeze and run it through that pump or else you are looking at 150-300 for a new pump. Even if you claim to have it in a heated basement or garage, I've seen them crack all the time. It's not worth the risk.

@@CarlosPerez-ff3bj well, to be fair, he is a busy guy..

Did the box come with Gremlins? Always check lol.

My takaway from watching every one of Mustie's videos, is I need a mechanical lift table.... like stat. Not much in this world I hate more than having to bend down and get on the ground. Any suggestions as to a good value?

atta boy, Peter....

I’m fixing to hit 73 old mechanic and I know how you feel I will have to hurt all night and most of tomorrow But I just rebuilt a GX 390 and it sounds great 😊😊😊

So True! I drive for a ride share for the last 3 1/2 years and l am Constantly on the look out for ANYTHING of value or interesting. But it's just old furniture, beds, baby strollers, car seats and bags of old clothes. I would be thrilled to find something like this! I love new projects! Oh wait, I did find one of those razor mini electric motorcycles. But the tires are bad and the battery was toast. They did include the charger though. That always seems to be missing. I want to see if l can make an electric bike using the parts.

thats pure facts

No one even sells anything where I live and if they do it will be a silly price for some absolute piece of garbage

Lol. Same....

If the school teaches one method and you teach him another way to do things, he is ahead of most of his class.

Good luck to him! Humankind couldn't function like it does so without mechanics.

Mike Rowe would be proud!

That's the smart route to take nowadays. I am a woman but I grew up a major tomboy in the 70's. My dad & uncles were into fixing things and I learned. I raced and built/fixed go carts, I later raced & built a desert car. lol Nowadays, very few people learn how to fix stuff, especially more complex things like engines. The ability to troubleshoot and then fix something is so rare nowadays, it's almost like a superpower. I joke but it's kind of true. That kind of job is going to be very lucrative over the next 20 or 30 years. They are manufacturing most things overseas now but, when those things break down, they have to be fixed. It's simple supply & demand. We have more & more cars and fewer & fewer people are becoming mechanics. When most of the population doesn't even realize they have fluid in their transmission, they have no choice but to pay to get it fixed.

@@timothyhays1817 Agreed. Proper mechanics aren't paid what they are worth but as the older mechanics start to retire, they aren't being replaced fast enough. When that shortage starts to pinch, pay will start to go up. If you get in front of employment trends, you end up doing very well long term. A good mechanic starting today can make a fair living. They aren't going to get rich but it pays better than lots of things. In 5 years, they will have that experience and there will be fewer mechanics out there. In 10 years, the mechanic starting today will be at the peak of their career when there is a real shortage. That will be a very lucrative time, especially if you open a shop. Then it will take another 10 years or so for younger people to realize that being a mechanic is pretty lucrative. By the time that generation makes up for the shortage, the experienced mechanic is well established and won't be competing with the new guys. If you go into something right as a shortage is starting, you can be in high demand for most of your career.

AJC lol that’s funny

Dayum

My thoughts exactly!

Same thing here

Well said.

Ditto! (The Movie "Ghost"). :-)

Could not say better myself :)

Love it I was needing a saw Something told me to stop at this pawn shop They had a stihl 026 that said "busted tank" on it $139 included an oem case I bought it 130 out the door and stopped by the stihl dealer and grabbed a new gas cap... runs perfect 🤣 That was a steal btw Later on my local hardware store had a pile of markdowns 3 x 74 link stihl chains $15 ea,I offered $30 all 3 and the guy said sure, those are $30 EACH 😁

sounds like it was a give away not a throw away. ive put some good things on the side of the road with a free sign on the side of it.

@@AdamMalcolm96 It was at our trash site in the scrap metal bin.

Put some gas? Hah, so that's how it works?...

@@megaotstoy yes?

Husbands die and men able to do repairs are not around. This is going to happen as less people are handy and in general most women would not care to repair nor know how!

That's a good idea, but most KZfaqrs will tell you not to quit your job. Because with KZfaq you never know, and besides you need millions of viewers to make any considerable amount of money.

I was cutting the grass,my neighbor asked if I wanted his line trimmer, I figured why not. He gave me a goddam Honda straight shaft 4stroke! New primer bulb and carb kit and still going strong a year later.

Same in my area but I've found my local landfill has some good stuff they sell. I got a push mower last year for $5 that was self propelled with electric start and all it needed was a flywheel key.

I've found most just stow their problem machines in a corner or behind the shed. Word of mouth spreads and folks will bring in stuff they find. I've gotten free garden tractors, tools, weed trimmers, etc after a few brought back from the dead fixes for people. Mustie1 enabled a lot of that.

Started by doing favors for neighbor's and now I'm sorta the guy here. Currently have 72 CL350, 19' G3 Duck Hunt boat, Scag zero turn, numerous chainsaws, and string trimmers in the shop for fix'n and upgrades.

@@baggins1 If I find an old mower or a generator, I could fix the carb because of Muste1. I've learned so much from him and I've never taken an engine apart but I could now.

Ezydusit And his stuff is so much better than the many cop shows and such we have to watch on the babble box. Most all my viewing is fixit dudes on KZfaq.

I just got a Nikkota? From someone for free. Same generator. Quick bowl clean and she started. Quarantine watching Mustie videos ive seen two or three times! Cheers!

good, one for u. if you can afford it, get a Cummins diesel genset. 1800 rpm diesel, built like a tank, with all kinds of excellent features. Our town, has one, for a backup at the town offices.....

@@petersack5074 , I bought a Honda EU5000 last fall. Pricey, but has battery start, runs quietly, and is very fuel-efficient (especially with the auto-idle feature that revs it down when the electrical load is minimal and revs it up when the load increases). Easily runs 13 or 14 hours on a tank of gas. I've used it several times this winter, Including just a few days ago when it was 10 degrees outside and we lost power for 12 hours because of high winds. Not only does it run the furnace/boiler, well pump, fridge, duct blower, lights, TV, microwave (though the microwave sounds like it struggles a bit), and an electric fry pan, it will even run the dishwasher in "eco" mode. Can't run the electric stove or clothes dryer, but I have a propane camping stove and I can cook pretty good with the electric fry pan and campstove. I made a delicious roast with veggies in the slowcooker while the power was out; good to keep one of those around, they're way more efficient than the electric frypan. I bet I could get away with washing a small load of clothing too, but with no easy way to dry them, there's not much point. If I used a diesel generator I might be prone to having problems with the fuel in the machine gelling during cold weather; my garage is unheated and so I would have to store spare diesel in the basement crawlspace, not really a good idea; but spare gasoline doesn't mind the cold and can stay outside.

you are wasting your time.. everything will be electric and serviced by robots.. or aliens

Fair play to you Eli. 👍 Keep up curious and fixing stuff and doing practical things.. and you will learn a lot. You are the future and maybe young folks like you will fix this fu**d up world,... because this generation right now... Naaahh... wasted.

What is improper shutdown?

Shutting fuel off with no load?

@@MC-hs4mf Yer always supposed ta shut off the electric load before turning off the engine. Failure to do so causes damage. That's what the owner's manuals all say.

@@Cougar1212 so unplugging it from generator? That seems obvious, but does running it out of fuel with no load plugged into it hurt it, which empties the carb and seem to be less carb issues

I'm a first time watcher. I love how you didn't edit out your mistakes. It makes the video enjoyable funny as we can all see ourselves doing the same stuff, and still learn from it! Keep up the good work!

Lethal-Bacon I made mine out of a .50 squirt catchup bottle from the dollar store. Nip the end off the spout just enough to push your choice of small 2 cycle line thru it. You’re done. I used a small piece of coat hanger wire as a plug in its end. Works fine for me!

Lethal-Bacon I made mine out of a .50 squirt catchup bottle from the dollar store. Cut the end off the spout just enough to push your choice of small 2 cycle line thru it. You’re done. I used a small piece of coat hanger wire as a plug in its end. Works fine for me!

thanks!

you are a liar and a foll. a liarin fool you might say.

ok boomer

If you ever figure out how to get a crackhead working on a steady basis you may be the next millionaire.

You must live in muskegon mi I have the same problem.

@Martin Luther Doesn't make sense when there worth more then your whole family. Jokes on you numbnut..

karts n stuff I’m in Holland hi I have the same problem but I just got 2 free mowers off letgo I responded within 15mins of it being posted lol

Ok ... you have me hooked ... as I mentioned in another post.. love troubleshooting with you ... since I found you on KZfaq I have have a 35 year old Honda HS55 snowblower engine up and running... my 35 year old Generac generator and power washer serviced and running ... a complete service on my Honda HS928 snowblower ready for winter... a 40 year old Homelite blower rebuild and running... a very old Toro weed wacker engine ready for rebuild ... a Mantis tiller on the list to fix and a 30 year old Husky chainsaw also on the list ... I'm a carpenter by trade and have owned a computer repair business ... running for 16years ...thanks for the videos ...keep them coming!

I was given one but had no idea what it was called Thanks 😊

Sad times my friend

Tom's Tinkering and Adventures there's still a bunch of us around. The sad part is that so much new equipment is now coming with sealed plastic unserviceable carbs. Thankfully many of us have our own little "hoardes"(to use musties terminology) of carbs & complete engines set aside. Hopefully some time in the next decade or so I'll have some grandkids to start passing knowledge on to.

@@ROTAXD some of the Chinese toys (quads, mini-bikes, etc) have sealed carbs on the Honda clone engines. I've had good luck grinding a slot into the heads of the fasteners, opening them up and getting the carbs working. But the again, replacement carburetors are $12......I just don't like to wait.

Us guys that even work on stuff. People say its too costly to fix, so they put out by the road. Its unusual to see someone just dump a good unit like that by the road, but hey! Freebees are BEST!

Well I’m 17 and I do a bit of tinkering, and I don’t intend on dying out any time soon 😉😉

My Dad always used to say "if it ain't broke don't fix it"! Never listened to his advice - it's cost me thousands over the years!

if it aint broke. Then don't fucking fix it.

You guys are doing it wrong. You have to fix it till it's broke

Yes I learned that a long time ago “ if it ain’t broke don’t fix it “. No disrespect but I would have dumped the old fuel, changed the plug & oil, good as new.

@@pfmurphy525 + plus a can of Seafoam in that gas tank.

How bout a lace?

the only free engines i have found are 4 lawn mowers and like 5 weed eater motors

You need to be looking up to find shoes. They are tied together over the power lines.

Look on craigslist,free stuff catagory,you'll be amazed if you keep looking everyday,at what you can get for free.

@@dman9579 nothing in Spain only fraudsters

Awesome, thank you!

Squat251 or stick your pinky in the spark wire

Not bad then. Fix a broken one and saved $500 bucks (or maybe a little less with no starter).

celSius

cdouglas1942 or just stop and use metric, accirate and the rest of the world uses it

That is so much easier that the American Mathematical approach (°C × 9/5) + 32 = °F Thank you.

Sir that sounds like a great idea. I'm snowed in and need something to do after work, and my son's ATV has a heck of a vacuum leak.

I do that still

I would move out if I were u

Hi I'm going r to get

I was thinking the same think.... Hot Hot Hot!

should have used jb weld

@@pa6390 yeah that's like using a flamethrower to light birthday candles.

@@byrysh that is a good idea, some people are getting so dam old, takes forever to light those candles.

Most of those fuel parts are pot-metal, not aluminum. Pot-metal has an even lower melt temp. than alum. Repair would call for epoxy.

Why not order a new part that broke ? Now you have a good generator and another one that needs a ten dollar part that is going to be useless sitting on a shelf ! That’s why it was sitting on the curb ! Unless you order a part that was destroyed! You don’t need the generator at this minute! Good luck good show !

Maybe because he does it himself to make a video? This "free" generator may have been his all along, think about it.

@@6977warrior1 ~ doubtful. He'd have been smarter than to buy one of those cheap chicom generators in the first place.

He set it up

His channel is staged.

@@6977warrior1 he has fixed dozens, why would he own that many DUH

Be the change you want to see