• Craftsman – Built for life

    I’ve had this craftsman gas blower for a long time.  I think more than 14 years…  Last year I took it apart to fix the choke.  I basically broke the plastic lever off.  So I cut a hole in the case and now ‘manually’ set the choke.  At the time it was a big  job and I thought I disassembled most of it.  Not.

    Well, the pull cord broke and I let it sit for a few months and last Sunday I decided to ‘fix’ it to save money.  And since it has been a reliable machine I thought it was the right thing to do.    You would not believe what I had to do to replace the $3.56 pull cord. Yep, take it completely apart.

    Here it is at the point where I could actually insert the new cord.  Notice the number of parts!! ;->

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    Ok, here it is back together 3 hours later.  And it works better than ever.

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