While not NEARLY as spectacular, the line came to mind last mont as I was being a good suburbanite, and mowing my lawn using my trusty 8-year old 6.25 Horsepower Briggs & Stratton powered Murray...
I was happily mowing along when POW... I saw something fly from under the mower and thought I had hit a rock (the kids are constantly picking up and dropping rocks). But when I went to pick up the "rock", it burned my hand, and following the obligatory obscenities, I looked and saw this....
And a closer shot.....
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Ouch! I don't think JB Weld would be enough to take care of that one. Cool pics though...
So in that third photo, is that the crank end of the connecting rod I see with the burnished/scored semi-cylinder? Sad to say, I've never taken apart a lawnmower engine, so I'm guessing at the orientation. And if so, is the "crank" really a pin eccentrically-positioned on the side of a flywheel? I guess the silver chunk in photo #1 is a piece of crankcase, almost as big as the chunk punched out of the Slant Six in Tim's van when it DBUed on the Hollywood Freeway as we were going home from the grocery store.
Yep, that's the end of the connecting rod, and you can see the cast-iron crank throw sust below it. It's a simple, single-throw crank on a vertical axis.
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