Tom..... ..thanks for the kind words (blush)..... .Dell Have I ever had a "bee-fuzzelment", yeah. Number of times. Last one I remember concerned chasing down a no start weak sparkies problem with my professional grade digital voltmeter. Since my digital meter is auto-polarity, I don't pay attention to meter leads. I was reading about 5.5-volts at the distributor feedthru; little LOW but not alarming. Read the battery post volts; 6.2-volts; pretty normal. Walked around the tractor and I read the ignition switch volts = 6.8-volts. ....WTF???.... Somehow the meter leads got switched in my hands as I walked around the tractor and now I was reading MORE VOLTS than the battery is rated for. Checked at the battery posts, yep, now 6.8-volts; whereas previous battery post volts was 6.2-volts. When I re-crossed or un-crossed my leads, I now got 6.2-volts. ...WTF!!!... Turns out, the 9-volt transistor battery inside my digital meter was only outputtin' about 7-volts. (I checked later) I needed a NEW METER BATTERY!!! It was only 8-yrs old, cheap batterys! Yes, my meter has a "low-BATT" annunciator that my weak-eyes miss-noticed in brite sunlite. Ultimately, my no-start problem was BAD feed-thru insulator. New NYLON feedthru at local hardware store $50c, cheap..... ..Dell, the fallible
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