Saturday, February 15, 2020

Mower repairs–part 1

Victa Briggs & Stratton mulching mower will not start (bugger)

Since the last time I serviced the mower a few years ago it's been running well and now suddenly with no warnings - will not start ???

There are a couple of things creeping in lately, harder to prime and the recoil starter is dodgy - slack cord.

Removed the cover, the end of the throttle cable needs to be unhooked from the throttle arm.

Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Meadowbrook Mansion visitors–part 13

Sprocket - work up from a snooze downstairs ‘where is everyone’ did a tour of the house and made contact with us on the balcony ‘all OK; then went back to what he was doing downstairs but this time upstairs in the lounge – in his basket.

Meadowbrook Mansion visitors–part 11

Setup a couple of cameras connected to the Workshop CCTV system to monitor the little buggers in the chook run annex.



Motion Activated Sprinkler - part 6

Was in Bunnings the other day and something reminded me of this 2016 project gathering dust under a workbench.

The basic concept is if you have a problem with unwelcome visitors (daytime/nocturnal…anytime) this is for you. Originally I came up with this idea to solve a particular problem, to keep a daytime prowling cat out of the backyard that was stalking our chooks. After I do a review of this with some costing I'll put it up on Al's Workshop - see what happens.

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On the left is a water solenoid and to the right the control box. I'll do another post explaining how this works along with a demo in the backyard.

Another new toy for kitties.