I've been working on equipment nearly all my life, but I only lay claim to the 29 years, since my 18th birthday, for professional purposes. In that time I've run up on a field repair, or two, that I've been taught or had to figure out on my own. So, here's one of those nuggets of field expedient wisdom.
Next time take the side of a milk carton and make yourself a washer to replace the copper one. It will work just fine as al you need is something softer than the bolt and housing to make a seal.
When your doing that, think about the newer machine. It probably has a bunch of plastic parts on the engine that will eventually crack (just replaced a plastic front cover on a JD for a customer for the low price of about $800 plus parts...at least they made the new one out of aluminium ), or the oil fill neck has a special sized/thickness (metric usually)O-ring, instead of a gasket, that will get hard and start to leak (same machine as the front cover), or even special sized, and composition O-rings on the cylinders that are available only through the dealership (((and you have to buy $150 worth of seal kits to get the parts you need, along with twice as many that you don't)))), or it might even have one of the bolts with an oversized head that has a groove cut into it that also takes a special sized/thickness O-ring to seal it.
In any case a milk carton won't solve your problem with the new machine, but it will get you a long way on an old one.
I could go on about the stuff I have seen when working on newer equipment.
I could also go on about how completely special things are now, and how dependent you will be on the dealership (((and how much you'll pay and pay)))) nearly every time there is a problem.......and how the local hardware, auto parts house, or whatever will often get you buy on the older stuff at a price much lower than the dealership would.....
I could even remind you how how having to rely on the dealership will cost the heck out of you in time when you break down on a Friday evening, and there is no one to get you up and going until Monday....if they aren't booked up that day already.... BUT how you can often fix the old stuff yourself and be up and going in a few hours......
But I think you can get the idea from what I've said so far.........
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