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Posted by Bill on July 7, 2008, 10:04 am
Most products which can be serviced have "service manuals" available from
the manufacturer. In the case of a lawnmower, you would get a service manual
from the engine manufacturer.
The factory service manuals for anything will give specific service
information for that specific product and tell you exactly what to do,
whereas "generic" service manuals try to cover many different products and
can be frustrating to use.
The best example of this is for a car. Get a factory service manual from the
dealer parts department (which would be for one specific model) and compare
that with the generic service manuals at auto parts stores.
My car factory service manual tells me exactly how to remove the inside door
handles (use a rag to un-clip holding ring), how to remove the dash,
computer error codes, etc. It is twice as many pages as the generic (which
covers all models for several years) and it only covers my car!
"montana wildhack" wrote in message
> I've been able to fix three lawn mowers so far this summer, but I really
> don't know anything about them. All the fixes I did were obvious and easy.
> I didn't have to know what the parts that needed to be replaced were
> called.
>
> I held a carburetor in my hand for the first time today. I'm almost 55.
> As it turned out, a friend who teaches shop in North Carolina called to
> say hello just at the right time. He suggested I take Junior High shop,
> but he asked me some questions and helped me discover why the reservoir
> was leaking. I'm still not finished with the mower I'm working on (as in,
> I don't think I put everything pack together properly) but it doesn't leak
> anymore...
>
> Are there any good books for someone who is kind of clueless? And manual
> free? I need to have a better grasp on how everything works.
>
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