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Nick167

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I was gonna put the old 8n in my grandpa's woodshop for winter well went to start it and the starter wounldnt work right so I got my brother and he pull started me well I got off to unhook it and it died so we tried to pull start it again and nothing so we pulled it to the top of the driveway and I worked on it and thought something was wrong with spark so i put new points condensor and plugs in the starter had started working so I tried it and nothing so i started pushing it towards the barn and thought I should shut the gas off well it was off so I tried it and nothing o I went to turn the key off and it was off so i turned it on and as soon as I the button it fired right off just thought I'd tell everyone about my goofs for the day
 
I did the same thing once with our 2n -- I told a friend that there was nothing to tell me if the key was on our not - He told me if ya cant pull it out it must be on -- lessoned learned ps-
 
Hadn't thought of this in years- just above the key on our 8N when I was a kid, previous owner had scratched in the paint "On is up".

And you're sure not the first one who has done a bunch of other stuff, only to discover the gas was turned off.
 
Stayed at my aunt's house one summer when I was a kid. After much pleading, she agreed to let me mow the lawn, but wanted to show me how to start the mower. She cranked on that thing til she was blue in the face, then she cranked some more. I learned a lot of new descriptive adjectives that I'd never heard before. When she finally ran out of breath and gave up, I asked her what that little tab against the spark plug was for. Then I learned another list of words to add to my already polluted vocabulary. She was normally a real sweet lady - this was a side I'd never seen before. Or since.
 
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