Quote Originally Posted by Moveon View Post
haha. You are so right. Funny you mentioned that and I forget to put that in my post. As last night I ended up going to lowes and bought a 4 ft long aluminum conduit pipe for just such purposes. And then I spend another few bucks on a longer 1/2" drive ratcheting socket wrench. The stupid thing cost me 69 bucks but I'll not be in this predicament the next time I need more power to take off a nut or something. But $69 is a lot of money for a socket wrench don't you think? Oh well I charged it on my VISA card and still have the receipt. I can use it and then take it back to the store and get my money back. Or I'll just take it to the repair shop and get it done there. They said it would only cost 39 bucks to do the job with the added cost of parts. Every one else in Newburgh and Evansville and Haubstat wants 75 dollars and hour to work in the Snapper Rider and they can't tell me how long it will take to do the job. Perhaps an hour .... perhaps it may take longer. They can't guarantee me a time frame over the phone. But the other shop said it would only cost 36 or 39 dollars to do the job. That's a lot cheaper than 75 bucks. And hopefully the part cost are the same no matter where I go to have it fixed. I'll find out tomorrow.

I'll keep the long aluminum breaker bar so that I can slide it over my other socket wrench handles to increase the leverage.

I still can't get the nut off the blade on the rider mower. I have a 3/4" socket to take the nut and bolt apart to remove the blade. There are two of these 3/4" heads by 1" long bolts that I have to unscrew before I can take the blade off. I have to take the blade off so that I can attaches something to the arbor to hold it still while I use the breaker bar or the air impact wrench at the top to get the pulley nut off. It's a two man job and I don't have any one to help me to this in a timely manner. So off to the shop it goes tomorrow. Why is everything so hard to do and so complicated? So they can make more money off me and you? I guess. I want easy to fix stuff not hard to fix stuff.

Saturday was not my day. I got half way across town and then found out that I forget my wallet. I had to turn around and drive back home to get the wallet. By that time it was too late to do anything but have some drinks and relax.

I can always use the breaker bar on the tire lug nuts as they use an air impact wrench to put them puppies on.
I'm sorry man, but if you USE that 69 dollar tool, you OWN it..........

Nothing PISSES me off more than when someone buys , uses, and then RETURNS a tool.....I call ********.

Now, there is nothing wrong, if you buy, use, and it is the wrong tool, but in your case, you KNOW you're taking it back, and in my mind that is just as good as theft.

Later,

Geo