(August 2, 2019 at 11:56 am)Succubus Wrote:(August 1, 2019 at 8:34 pm)Brian37 Wrote: ...I do one lap around my lawn, have to back up, switch gears and all the sudden the damned thing wont move, the gear switch crapped out. My neighbors fiddled under it and got the pin to stick. YES, a FUCKING PIN. That is the only fucking thing that keeps my mower in gear...
The fact that the wee man next door had no trouble locating this 'pin', suggests it was built for easy access. Was it possibly a 'shear pin' designed to, you know, shear under abnormal load to prevent catastrophic failure of the gearbox. As in an inexperienced operator changing direction before the machine has come to a complete stop.
Could you post the make and model numbers.
No, I watched them struggle to put everything back in place. Instead of dumping that on the consumer, a good product won't be designed to get to that point as to have the buyer have to bring it back to the shop in the first place, much less ask a neighbor to fix it.
It is just a lawn mower sure. But passenger jets have crashed and killed hundreds over cheap parts.
That says to me it is a greed issue. Corporate America had the same attitude of pumping out crap and only waiting until something bad happened to change, when Nader in the 70s faced the auto industry with how fucked up their products were. Despite all that kicking and screaming, the auto industry IS STILL ALIVE. And that facing them with their flaws lead to seat belts and air bags.
I was on the phone with an employee yesterday at the box store I bought it from, before my neighbors fixed the problem. He said to me that that same issue I got fixed by my neighbors was a chronic problem with multiple brands.
