Sometimes luck is better than skill

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edited November -1 in HUDSON
Last Sunday evening I had the top off one of my carbs trying to figure out why I still don't have a high speed. I had pulled the plug off the high speed jet and the downstream side of the accelerator pump and thought I would see if the pump was pushing gas, well, it pushed gas and the check ball right out of the top to careen off the manifold and into the Saint Agustine lawn, you should never drop small parts into St Agustine. So I crawled under the car and searched with a magnet all to no avail, it was getting dark and I grabbed a flash light and looked under the carb and I could see a glint deep in the grass. I dropped a screw driver straight down and took my magnet and searched at the tip and when I crawled back out there was the check ball. Needless to say it went back where it belonged and the plug went back into the carb. Now I know the pump is working so what part of the circuit is plugged that I don't have a top end?



Harry

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  • Hudsy Wudsy
    Hudsy Wudsy Senior Contributor
    I worked as a sewing mechanic for several years at a time when mechanical machines had reached the limits of their potential and manufacturers were transitioning over to electronic (computerized) machines. Some of the last mechanical machines at this time were amazingly complicated. The Bernina model 930 had 1600 moving parts. (Yes, I said MOVING parts - any guess how many Hudsons it would take to make 1600 moving parts?). By the end of the '80s, however, most all of the premium machines had all become elctronic and had far, far fewer parts. The trouble with the mechanical machines was that when working on them, some tiny little screw or spring was always flying about. After endless fruitless occasions searching on my hands and knees with flash lights and magnets, I learned that, by far, the best thing you could do to find something tiny that's lost on the floor somewhere is to lay down with your eye as close as possible to the floor and scan for it. It's surprising how much profile something small has when you're looking at it from the side. It was an awful nuisance laying in all of that thread and sewing machine lint, but it almost always resulted in sucess that no other method ever did. I'm happy to say that I never faced the challenge of St Augustine grass, however. I think you were mighty lucky!
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