Interpretive dance, you're probably too late to learn to survive.
Man im about to take off on a plane you had me almost laugh out loud.
Mechanics and repair. I might be saying that because my lawnmower won't start and now I have to learn to fix it. We all start somewhere
If you can use starter fluid on the intake and it starts you have a fuel system issue.
Need more specifics to really help you.
Sometimes people forget to change the oil.
Ethanol is brutal on a carb. It gums it up. If you take it to a shop they charge you to clean the carb, replace the spark plug, replace the air filter, and change the oil. All things you can do.
Start running ethanol free gas through it and it will do wonders.
It's a no oil change model.
Is it a Honda mower? Throw it away. The shit-tier autochoke carbs on those are replace yearly.
Is it anything else? Check the spark. Is the plug more than a year old? It's bad, replace it. Change the oil. Clean/replace the air filter. Fresh gasoline. Never leave gasoline in the mower for more than a month or so, if you're storing it for the winter just let it run dry.
If you've varnished the carb because it's set for a long time with gasoline in, you may need to tear that down and rebuild it.
If you've varnished the carb because it's set for a long time with gasoline in, you may need to tear that down and rebuild it.
I hope not, it hasn't set too long, maybe two weeks, but we've had humidity and rain the whole time. My best guess rn is that there's too much water in the carb.
I think it is an auto choke, Briggs n stratton, cheap model
Two weeks is nothing, I'm talking all winter. If it's seen any kind of water exposure, then your diagnosis is probably correct.
All modern mowers have an automatic choke, they hold closed during cranking and then open against a spring when then engine is running. Honda decided to be fancy - they use a wax pellet inside the carb to open and close the choke, as it warms up it's supposed open the choke and keep the engine running. It doesn't work well sometimes and cold starts can be difficult because as soon as the engine starts, you should open the choke and it takes time for this wax pellet to melt. Once things get out of tolerance a bit, you take the carb apart, clean it, re-adjust, or simply replace. That's why they're so cheap on Amazon, it's almost a spark plug replacement level.
When I took mine back to the dealer, they tried to tell me that these mowers aren't designed for ethanol enriched gasoline, you need to use only pure gasoline. That's great for any place that isn't the United States, but mine always built up sludge in the jets, probably from the ethanol.
I've had my Honda mower for 6 years, all I do is replace the oil every 2 years. That's mowing the lawn every other week for 6 months out of the year. It's a push mower. Never had a single issue.
Yeah, about 1 out of 20 people seem to have good luck with these things. Mine did what everyone else I know who had one from around 2010 did - it didn't.
I got tired of constantly fucking with the carb. Mine was defective right out of the box, it was missing the idle jet chamber gasket. Dealer refused to fix it under warranty, told me I used bad gasoline. I told them they were full of shit and they could fuck off. I had a friend tear it down and reset it, it ran poorly for a season and quit. Deck started to rust and peel ON TOP after the first year. Constant carb cleanings and fucking-withs. Just tossed the damn thing in a dumpster after filling the gas tank with expanding foam, went and got a junk briggs. I got 3 years out of it, and it never ran or started right once.
The shit-grade Briggs&Stratton I replaced it with 5 years ago is still going strong, and it cost 1/3 the price. It starts every time.
Learn to garden, use a firearm.
Learn to differentiate between the Farmer and the Cattle.
Try to find an old copy of a U.S. Army survival guide. It has just about every tip and trick you need to know to stay alive in the wilderness if necessary. Also learn about foraging and how to butcher an animal.
Wilderness? Humans require urban and farmland to survive
I believe the book does have sections on urban survival.
Incorrect
Nope. Fact.
Wilderness is for tiny numbers of dirt gubbers.
Humans need their own self created environments. That's an observable fact
Self Defense (all forms), gardening, canning, changing your own oil, brake, etc, going analog on everything you can think of.
De-niggerfication and shoah techniques
A lot of people here are going to try to convince you that the world is about to end when you ask things like this in these places. Currently, there's two emerging and equally retarded camps aligned with the false dichotomy the USA is subjected to: Progressives think the world is ending because of a global pandemic that's killing millions a day and we've never seen anything like this before. They're wrong. Conservatives think the world is ending because the retards think the world is ending which will cause the end of the world because they're going to give away all of their freedoms to save themselves from the world ending. This is somehow more retarded and obviously wrong.
The reality is we've been too indulgent and we've been consumed with avarice, inspiring a complete lack of awareness in both directions. The numbers of deaths and shit are all complete fabrications that is only legal in a gray area. The world isn't ending because of the reaction to the world ending because all you have to do for the world not to end is turn off the TV and tune out of the fear mongering groups touting the end of the world because the other group thinks the world is ending.
This is all a big Hegelian Dialectic move and too many retards are falling for it.
Do you actually want to know? Well, here's the funny part - I agree with most of the peppers. No, I don't think the world is ending. I just think learning to use a firearm is good for anyone. I think learning how to grow some or most of your own food is good for anyone. But I'd like to add to the suggestions of learning to protect yourself, learning to know how to survive in the wilderness and all adjacent areas (which, again, I think anyone can benefit from): Learn about Finance. Learn about Traditional Finance and also Decentralized Finance. Learn to get fit. Don't just eat healthier. Figure out how fasting works and give that shit ago. Also, you should really take the time to get in shape if you haven't. Learn to ignore the news and the bored grifters who get bribes (unwittingly or otherwise) for causing mass panics which inspire attitudes you see here, overgrown children with no ability to discern sensationalism from reality, who all conveniently have an obvious and insatiable Fallout addiction. Learn to be less dependent on centralized authorities. Find out how to be your own bank, your own employer and your own news source (meaning do your own research and quit listening to brainlet parrots on the computer). Pick up a hobby or two that you can do so you aren't glued to the internet all of the time.
I highly suggest you start reading the Stoics. It can help you protect yourself from venomous ideas and people who don't deserve your attention.
... whatever's bound to happen soon?
I swear, you guys only think this because of the synthesis routine where you all get distracted and point the gun at each other and not the people who deserve scrutiny.
Welding.
Sharpshooting
Sucking dicks... because that's definitely what you'll be doing a lot of to get your food, once SHTF.
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