As I suffer of depression and anxiety I spend my days watching a ton of your videos, I find your videos so relaxing, very detailed and your voice is so calm and you speak wisely, you Mr James Condon you are 👌 TYSM for sharing your knowledge

One thing that might add is this. To prevent rust from forming in any metal container, is in the final rinse use a weak dilution of sodium nitrite ( NOT sodium nitrate) in the rinse water. I (in the long past early 90s) used to manage a barrel reconditioning business. To prevent rust from forming in the drums we used about ½cup of sodium nitrite in 1,200 gallons of water in our final rinse. This works extremely well. To give you an idea of how good this is, one of our customers supplied chemicals to Morton Thyocol to use in their rockets for the space program. There was never any problem with the sodium nitrite we used in our rinse. Be aware that sodium nitrite is commonly used in the process of removing rust from coils of steel before it is used in the manufacturing of car parts, for example. It is cheap, and works extremely well in fuel tanks. Just thought this might help someone.

@kennethprice1370

Жыл бұрын

Challenger solid fuel boosters

@sriharianne5229

5 ай бұрын

Your suggestion is very useful and thanks a lot my dear friend.

"As you can see... it's got some issues." Mr. Condon, you have perfected the art of understatement. 😎

@RaysLaughsAndLyrics

Жыл бұрын

Brewster.. Best comment!👍

@justgetrinthere

Жыл бұрын

You doubted your doubts Excellent informative as always Enjoy the vids with my coffee

@jayjudd6518

Жыл бұрын

Ho Lee Chit guess your a small engine Genius for sure. Congratulations on this win .

@w2dmw

Жыл бұрын

You know Jim, I've seen cradles built, with 2 half round cut-outs, and a 1/4 size beer keg welded in, and it was great. All stainless, those kegs, you know.....great gas tank..

@oemytech

Жыл бұрын

Wow... From junk to gold.

I love the cardboard with folded-in edges (36:42) to keep the oil from getting all over, great idea!!

To clean up the needle seat you can run a Q-tip in a drill with aluminum polish-valve grinding compound or toothpaste to clean it up. I also remove ring ridges on the rubber needles with a tool I made. You can cut the head off of a 16 penny nail and place a piece of fuel line over the nail. You can then push the needle into the fuel line and run it in a drill on a piece of 1500 sand paper with a little light weight oil. This will fix a leaking needle and seat on about any carburetor. You amaze me with the diagnostics you perform on these generators. Thank you and keep them coming.

Wow, this came back from the proverbial grave. Very well done. I can appreciate why you did not take the engine apart due to the expense of the parts. I was expecting you would put your bore scope down the spark plug hole just to see what the inside looked like. Amazing how well this runs now. It did not take long for the smoke to clear. My Generac 7000 W generator has a tiny Sealed Lead Acid battery so the new garden tractor battery likely puts out more amps than my SLA battery. Dave.

James, you have more perseverance than anyone I've ever known or seen. Great job resurrecting that old dinosaur. It's my thoughts that the reason generators like this one have little resale value is because everyone wants inverter generators now. People have been educated on the "dangers" of using "dirty" electricity on these newer electronic devices. That particular Kubota generator would be great to use on a jobsite running power tools. Thanks for the awesome content.

@Ken-rk3by

Жыл бұрын

I was gonna mention it would be good for power tools on a job site too, but you beat me to it. lol

@-paganless2-432

Жыл бұрын

Furthermore the difference in size, weight, noise and fuel efficiency will probably seal the deal; well, it did for me.

@robertmehlfelderbob

Жыл бұрын

Troy, you talk about perseverance, you should check out Mustie 1. He has a knack for solving almost any engine problem that he finds and doesn't give up until he gets it to run!!!

@michaelmactavish4445

Жыл бұрын

@@-paganless2-432 hard belive anyone would through that nice kubota away and there parts are still avaliable and there engines too for that

Amazing that old boy made it. I am sure there is someone that will give it a good home now and keep it out of the land fill. That vacuum set up on the Carburetor was a work of art back when this was made as was the low idle set up. It even had a low oil sensor. Remarkable. Nice work. (Bet there are no plastic gears in that thing.)

Nice work, James. Another DOA brought back to life by you. I'm glad you did not have to tear the engine down. Looks like a strong generator at this point.

@jcondon1

Жыл бұрын

Me too. It would have been unlikely I could have used the parts on something else. Glad it came back.

@jeffclark2725

Жыл бұрын

@@jcondon1 Im always seeing that stuff as parts of some sort or another, its amazing what can be found under some dirt and rust, great video, just brought back to life 2 Onan Generators, looked like trash, run fine again,Thumbs up

@michaelmactavish4445

Жыл бұрын

kubotas are best engines for that and nice parts are still avaliable for them wich kubotas are smart because deere ones dont carry parts for there generators any more wich isnt to great

James this is the example of what we as a nation is a throw away nation ! A perfect running machine is in a dump you took it and now it is operating with your knowledge

These videos are the best! A great deal of knowledge, patience, and skill goes into them and the repairs too. Thank you James! It's enjoyable to see such a master at work.

That’s one beautiful generator! I just love the control panel. The whole thing just screams quality!😍

What a great win. Taking a machine that was almost certainly not recoverable and then working forward step by step is a masterclass in diagnosis and interpretation. Kudos and thanks.

Excellent save and recovery. This is the shortest hour on KZread. Enjoyed the whole process. Congrats on getting a survivor. Thanks for sharing.

Kitty flyby at 49:50 ! As always, you refuse to give up and the result is always amazing

Wow! You brought this one back from the dead! Once the smoke dissipated, and you adjusted the governor, it was ready to rock!

Fantastic Save. Perfect Gen for a Contractor. I really appreciate that you checked the waveform as I think there is value in getting a feel for how much variation there is from a pure sine wave amongst all these different Gens. I hope you may make it part of your evaluation with each new one you save.

Your knowledge, skill and perseverance saved this one. Well done sir...well done. A great way to start my Thursday.

I love your troubleshooting skills and your tenaciousness

Thank you James. A great video and i like how thorough you are in diagnosing and repair. Thank you

The attention to detail and restoration I commendable James. I once restored a generator and the tank was the same. I ended up filling the tank with pea gravel and degreaser, and ratchet strapped it onto a cement mixer drum for 12 hours

The beginning was quite grim, but as usual you gave it's life and purpose back! Great video of how things can get better by being patient!

I have to admit, I read the comments before I watched the entire video. Once people indicated that you fixed it, I watched the entire video. Good work.

Fantastic video James. It always makes my day to see you've posted. Thanks!

A masterful job. Well Done!

It is gratifying to watch you put a machine that was given up on, put back into a good working condition. Good video.

the engine gods were on your side on this one james

This is why I enjoy watching your channel! Keep up the good videos.

This is a quality generator with all the features including auto idle and auto choke with electric start. Great job!

It's interesting to hear you reasoning about the feasible alternatives, both technical and economical, while fixing this. Some elbow grease instead of a new tank got you a long way. Speaking of Kubota though, I'd love to see some diesel powered generators here.

Wow. Getting that going must be amazingly satisfying. Good for you.

Great job bringing another "hopeless case" back from the dead....at first sight, I agreed with you that it didn't have much of a chance....Perseverance paid off!!!

This channel has helped get two old generators back up and running 🏃‍♀️

Fantastic save! I like a 6' length of chain better than bolts for knocking rust and crud out of tanks. Wakes up the neighbors better and it's easier to get out, too. Worked great on my 700W Kubota.

Very helpful. You have a lot of empirical knowledge of generators. Thank you.

James, you have honed your craft well! Well spoken and easy to follow. Always look forward to your videos. Thanks ☺

Wow, that was a surprising back to life generator! Nice work James... 👍👍👍

That is the best one you have saved. I would not have given you a dime for that stuck thing when you started. That truned out to be a fine machine. Showed off your skills...

James very educational I saw it was a flat head and wondered if it would be worth fixing? Then you discovered a bunch of other stuff. But WOW you revived this old genny. Thanks James. Ed

Great job james well done getting it up and running again nice work.

Nice Job James. I learn so many good techniques from you. Thanks!

Nicely done. Lots of knowledge. I wouldn't have thought of nuts and bolts in the tank as sand paper.

Wow, that was a really great video! What a survivor. Appreciate the amount of time you spent on this!👍👍👍👍👍

James, I love watching you diagnose each component, then figuring out the solution. Most of us including myself lose patience and that affects us in finding the solution needed. I also echo a previous comment about the video quality of your work. I always learn so much more with each different machine you work on. Thanks for all your great videos, YOU are teaching a lot of us out here, and it is greatly appreciated !

@johncourtneidge

Жыл бұрын

Yes!

@additudeobx

Жыл бұрын

It's a bit different motivation when you also have the time invested into the making of a KZread video that needs an ending.

Wow. Not what I was expecting. More information in this video than I think I got out of pretty much any of the college courses I took back in the day. I'm glad that you do what you do and share it out here. I'd say that you would make an awesome teacher, but... better phrasing would be "you are an awesome teacher." You're really good at explaining your thought process as you diagnose a problem. Nice work and thank you for sharing. I think I could make my lawnmower generate power for our closest nuclear facility if I really wanted to after watching your videos.

Another great save Jim. Well done sir!

Clearly a well made machine, with some decent features, probably not suitable for electronics but it's definitely capable of running the fridge and or freezer along with some lights and maybe a small heater, so excellent save

Another great video James thank you, I’ve seen people attach gravel/nuts and bolts filled gas tank to a rear tire on a jacked up/raised riding lawn mower/tractor and let it spin around for 1 to 2 hours in 1st gear and this seems to works quite well for cleaning rust out of a gas tank.

@erik_dk842

Жыл бұрын

A cement mixer is the ticket

@jameshedrick605

Жыл бұрын

I've seen mustie1 do it in some of his videos

Always great to see what your working on. Thanks for sharing!

James, you are a marvel. I also watch Matt at Diesel Creek he had a very similar problem as he poured many acids into the tank to clean out the tank. When her was happy finally happy with the tank was to dry the inside. He used a dry rag and with the aid of compressed air to blow it around , thus drying the tank with out the rust inside of the tank heater was able to restore the tank back to full use. I find so frustrating that companies allow rebranding in the little country down under. Keep up with the analysis. Thanks James.

GM ☀️ have a great weekend and a wonderful lifestyle.... Thanks Mr James C.

Hi James, your magic worked again. That machine is a real piece of quality. Well ahead of its time with its functions and not to mention Yamaha reliability. Great work !

Another great video. Had a John Deere 4020 gas that siezed when parked. Sat for 5 years. Got it unstuck with a gallon of PB Blaster and a lot of back and forth.

outstanding presentation!

Favorite video you made yet. Auto idle...rofl works. Good job man

Well done again. So, yes battery, degreaser, oil and dolly costs. Little return except for scrap to usefulness. So, excellent work! Thank-you!

Good job, James. You never know when one that looks like a junker may turn into a runner. Thanks for yet another interesting video.

You save another one from the junkyard great job James. I hope it get a good home.

Great job James you are the man !!!! And your videos are the BEST !!!!

James, You amaze me every time with how go about diagnosing and coming up with a solution, and keeping the costs down love your video. I still think you need to sell some DVDs,s on how to diagnose power heads and electrical wiring. Your skill set is very valuable and needs to be appreciated by all. I have personally been able to repair 2 generators and am in the process of another with all of the knowledge that you have tough me. Thank You. And keep the videos coming!

You are definitely the man with the Midas touch.

That is the most amazing save I’ve seen you do. So cool

Well done James always tricky when someone has been in before 500 + crazy money.

Great video! Great content!! That was an incredible effort for a lower value generator but 1000 kudos for showing the public just how much you can accomplish with careful, patient persistence!! So many of us are painted into a corner with few resources needing to pull a rabbit out of our hats and this is the perfect video to show how you can succeed if you really want to.

WOW!! Awesome Video Thank you for making it.

great recovery

I watch several people on KZread on how to fix things. I like your channel because you make things simple to me. I have 2 generators one Briggs older model around 2015 and a Robin Subaru r1100. I got it during Katrina. That is all I could where I live in Mississippi. And I have a John Deere js35a. All 3 had carb problems. Well the Briggs I didn’t touch because I converted it to propane which I love. The others, after watch a lot of tour vids, decided I can do this. Well I bought a gallon of the carb cleaner. Needless to say I cut my grass for the first time in about 2 years with that John Deere and the little 1100 cranks on the second pull every time. Just wanted to say thanks. And I’ll keep watching Glenn Mississippi

Perfect long video while I’m stuck in the house during hurricane Nicole

I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT GENERATORS, BUT I LOVE TO WATCH YOUR VIDEOS ,THEY ARE REALLY INSTRUSTIONAL. G.B.Y. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.

A decent repair and a good find.

One lucky generator saved from the crusher. Well done James!

Great job. Good to know it's not wasted. I've used vinegar in a old car tank, that took several weeks but cleaned well. Specialised anti rust products are overpriced here in New Zealand.

What a GREAT find!!!

Excellent job, i had low expectations on this one, figured scored cam and bad power head because the wires were unplugged! Again good job!

@enocrios3870

Жыл бұрын

Y5yi

Great detective work on the Yamaha engine. Keep up the great work!

I'm beginning to believe there's nothing you can't fix. Thanks for another fascinating video.

Great save!

You are very good with generators. I watched your channel for a while and really enjoy watching you bring them back.

Nice job bringing this one back from the dead!

Nice work, thanks for posting.

Great job fixing the generator, especially without user manual and wiring diagrams.

Great save James.

I bet if that unit stayed in the dump much longer she would have been a gonner. Great save James. I like the other viewers find it very satisfying watching you work your magic. You always seem to stay very calm ( except the tilting fuel tank ) ehh I would have probably cursed ! I was amazed that old piece came back to life as well as it did, These are definitely great videos for those folks trying to sort out generator or engine issues.

As usual, most enjoyable. Yes selling it might only just cover costs but less landfill! Again, thank-you!

Super work congratulations ❤

Another award winning resuscitation! Btw I just went through another storm, Nicole, six weeks ago we went through Ian and my Troybilt genset was on standby for both! Luckily I didn’t have to use it, we didn’t lose power here in my part of Orlando,Florida. Oh yeah, it would have been up to the task!

very well done! incredible patience ,Learned alot thank you@!

You have more patience than I do my friend. Good job!!

brilliant james engine sounds great.good work bringing at back to life!

Nicely done, and very cool!

Nice genset!! Runs great. PB blaster helped with the "Lazarus" job on this.

Well done James. You can revive old metal tanks with POR 15 fuel tank sealer. Work well on scooter/motorcycle tanks.

Way to go! Nice work. Enjoyed that. Thanks for sharing

I've been watching a few of these videos, and I'm trying to work out why they are so engaging. I've came to the conclusion that it's because James is so thorough. There's another channel like this that I used to watch a lot, but they would always have numerous things going on. Quite often they would start something and never finish it, which just leaves you a bit frustrated, that you'd bought in to the project and there had been no conclusion. I like the way James videos are self contained, and that he also tries very hard to address every aspect of a machine, and not just half ass it, leaving bits of it still non functional.

This guy is the lockpickinglawyer of generators.

Great find and excellent save, well done. 👍

Excellent mechanic! 👍👍👍👍👍

Kubota has always been very proud of their merchandise.

I was waiting for the 2000 grit paper to come out to re-surface that needle! Another save, great work Jim!

@jcondon1

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Ken

Great job sir! I always learn great stuff from you.