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Hello cokeman277296, Welcome to Venture Rider. Please feel free to browse around and get to know the others. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask. cokeman277296 joined on the 06/27/2023. View Member

I’ve had decent luck except with the drill which I use the most. I also have the portable band saw, circular saw, metal cutting circular saw, small side grinder, and Brad nailer. Steel cutting circular saw has done ok but I backed over it with my tractor and it’s kind of messed up now but actually still works.

Actually, if I had a small yard where I used a push mower, I MIGHT consider one. In a residential area, the decreased noise level would be nice. I'm not against everything electric. I use Milwaukee Fuel 18 drils and saws for my stairlift installations. Much easier than dragging cords around but to he honest, they too are expensive and I don't get the life out of them that I should. Example, I use their 3/8 inch hammer drills. I don't abusd them in any way. I install about 110 to 120 stairlifts per year. Most have 4 brackets that screw to the stair treads and each bracket uses 4 wood screws, about 1 1/2" long and they are about a number 10 size. Not huge lag bolts. So 16 wood screws x 120 stairlifts means about 1920 screws per year. Sometimes there are a couple more per unit. That is VERY light use for a drill however. I typically only get about 3 years out roof a drill motor. The batteries actually last a bit longer than that. Not a good track record though. I have an EGO 56 Volt battery powered leaf blower. It's absolutely the best performing leaf blower I haver ever owned but you only get about 30 minute before it needs another charge and a few weeks ago, the charger quit working. It has a two year warranty and was about 18 months old when the charger went out. I called and they said that they would honor the warranty but the charger is apparently back ordered or something and now 3 weeks later, the order on their website still says waiting. I have no idea when it will ship.

In my opinion, it's just fake advertising. I just looked again and DR Powers website says 10.00 per hour operational saving vs. gas. It actually takes about 2 gallons of gas to mow my yard. It takes about 3 hours to mow my yard and about 2 gallons of gas so approximately 7:00 at current gas prides here. So that's about If I factor in a yearly oil change, that equals about 35 cents per hour for the annual oil change.and filter. So it cost me about 2.45 per hour to mow my yard. So how can they advertise that the electric mower saves 10.00 per hour over a gas mower when it only costs me 10.00 per hour to mow? If it didn't coast ANYTHING to charge the electric mower, it would save me about 2.45 per hour. Then figure new batteries at 4500.00 every five tears or so on top of that. Over 5 years, 4500 for new batteries minus 1200 for gas and oil means the electric would cost me 3300.00 more to operate over 5 years PLUS the cost of charging the batteries I'm not at all interested in an electric mower, just ran across these misleading ads while looking at various mowers. I can assure you that I will stick with gas or diesel. Most likely, gas.

Hello SamCan, Welcome to Venture Rider. Please feel free to browse around and get to know the others. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask. SamCan joined on the 06/25/2023. View Member

I'm in thee early stages of looking at new mowers. I now have a Woode Mow'n Machine with a 61" front deck and a Kawasaki engine. It's several years old now but hopefully won't need to replace it in the very near future but my wife mentioned that I should start thinking about it and If I need to replace it, should do it while I'm still working. Anyway, I started looking at what is available and ran across a DR Power electric zero turn with a 60" deck. You can buy it with one, two, or three batteries. I'm sure that for the size of my yard, it would require the three batteries to get it done with one charge. Now here's what puzzles me. They say that the electric mower will save an average of $10.00 per mowing vs. a gas motor. That's all well and good. They also say that there is a 5 year or 1000 hour warranty on the batteries and based upon my limited experience with these battery powered tools, that is about all you will get out of them. OK....so say that they last 5 years. The batteries are $1500.00 each. So in 5 years I have to spend $4500.00 to replace the three batteries. Based on my calculations, I would use about $1300.00 worth of gas and oil with my gas mower over 5 years. So how is this electric mower cheaper to operate? Do these manufacturers just hope that we don't do the math?

The '86 should make you a nice bike. That is not to say that you won't run into a few issues but with the help of the members here, if you need it, you should be good to go. There are a few things on the old Ventures that can end up needing attention but they will go many thousands of miles with no major issues.

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So sorry for your loss. Words are hard to find but just know that you are in our prayers.

That was the other issue. I did buy the oil in one 5 quart jug and 2 quart bottles at Walmart for the Waverunners but ended up going to 4 different auto parts stores to find enough filters and the MX4T for the bike. Each store had only one filter, and three of them didn't have the oil.

So this week it was time to change the oil in the trike and also our two Waverunners. Let me add here than I would rather change the oil in 10 Royal Star Ventures than a single Waverunner. What a pain that is. Anyway, those of you who have been around here a while know that I am a big fan and use nothing but Mobil 1. Mobil 1 MX4T motorcycle oil in the bike and standard Mobil 1 in the Waveruunners, car, and truck. I never try to convince anybody about which oil to use. All I know is that Mobile one has served me very well since the mid to late nineties. That being said and to be totally honest, in over 50 years of riding and driving, I have never had an oil related failure and have used several different oils over the years. It's getting expensive to do a simple oil change though. I bought 4 quarts of MX4T for the bike and 7 quarts of regular Mobil 1 to do. the two Waverrunners as well as the 3 filters to do them all. Total price, a bit over $150.00. No telling what it would cost if I had somebody do my oil changes.

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It almost sounds like you have more than one issue. You say that if you just put the single wire that goes from the starter to the relay that it blows the fuse.. With the ignition switch off, there should be no voltage at all to the starter relay so the contacts in the starter relay should be open and there should be no way to get a path to ground on that wire going from the starter relay to the starter.. Makes no sense. Look at this simplified diagram. You'll see that with the key off, starter relay not energized, there is no way to get a path from the starter to ground if you hook that wire up. It just hooks to an open contact. I think we need to know exactly which relay and wires you are pulling. Are you sure it's the starter really. The starter relay is beside the battery behind the left side cover. The starter cut off relay is behind the center cover between the two side covers.