Steviejim

Think I would have same problem if I bought used one? Or should I go for new to be sure it don’t happen again?

Ya that used to be fun watchin them hunt them up, they sure had a good time doing it, seems like a long time ago and im suprised that kids still do it these days! 

1 minute ago, shadetree said:

you have to replace the whole meter/display, there is nothing inside or under the plastic cover that can be swapped out, its the LCD screen, when they go bad ?, it time for a new meter/display.

Figured that might be the case! I will live with it if it dont get much worse.

Thanks Shade!

Frost got the buds on my apple trees couple years ago and the following years the apples were pretty sparse but they were ok the year the frost hit em, I think for some reason it is the year after its affected. At least it seemed that way!

Fish, whatcya got for rims on the blue fourtrax?
I like the looks of them they would go good on my Rubi!

Same hear in Vt, yesterday morning I was in a tee shirt and by afternoon I had my winter coat on. 51 and rain today but the grass is gettin green and horses are still sheddin out, ready for some sunny 70 degree days!!

On 4/10/2020 at 1:25 PM, AKATV said:

That is correct, it is an internal failure of the LCD display panel

Its a known failure specifically on the 450S, but happens to others as well

I only see it so often, but I have a 450S meter that has exact same spot size and location right now

The LCD glass panel has failed and it seems to be a manufacturing defect that takes time to appear

and when it does, it will pop out of the blue. It has to be replaced (the interior glass panel) to repair it

 

 

AKA, im guessing the glass would need to be factory sealed if replaced ! Or by chance is it something I could replace and only have to make sure its a water/ air tight seal around glass? If its even possible to replace in my shop?

 Thanks!!

Got a coil in that one Jeep???

42 minutes ago, LedFTed said:

i got one, i like it. i read later, you should get the oil out of the chain first. makes sense. that way it dont end up on the grinding wheel.

i fastened mine to a length of 2x6, i did have the clamps to fasten the length of 2x6 where i wanted. i dont like to sharpen every link in a chain, to the same width, so mine is flexible. it is good to know the pitch, an angle, of the cut you want. it has some adjustments, so you dont cut too deep. for the price, i'd buy another one, or at least buy the parts to fix mine.

 it just works on the cutting part of the links. there is more to a cutting link, i think. for lack of better words, i'l call it a skip. it dont do that. maybe it could be set up so. skips can be made to cut deeper, of the links that cut wood.

We can still get the pro logger chains here from our local small engine shop, they dont have any rakers on them which are anti kickback safety chains, the logger chains cut fast and deep, still file by hand which my old man tought me to do when I was about 12 and the chain throws out 5” ribbons but it cuts really fast, but gota watch it cause them ligger chains will kick back if ya dont have a death grip on the saw!

I burn about 2 cord year and oil, cut it on my back 8, do it usually in a 5 day strecth every  spring. Always kicks my ! for another 4 days afterward. Burn a big ole Warner stove set in my fireplace which takes a 39” chunk, dont have to split much of it can throw a pretty good size chunk in the big mouth, heats the whole house up and down , when its full though gota sit on the front porch it gets so frigin hot in livin room, only go through about 400 gal fuel oil though and winters are pretty cold this neck of the woods! Always say aint gona burn wood this year, then I look at the price of oil and out to the back 8 i go!!

gotaa Johnsered 2165 Turbo saw 18” bar and a Craftsman limb saw, split it all with my 13# sledge and mail, good thing I dont have to split a whole lot swingin that 13 pounder but one shot pops most!

4 hours ago, LedFTed said:

thats one of 2, in my avatar. she has grown up now. both her and her mother, are light keepers. cob's. she stand's 42 hands high. araibian blood. her mother is flea bitten red. white, with red spots. i forget what the white, with blue spots are called.

my horses cleared the fence row of poison oak. who knew. my 2 go through $75 dollars of hay, sometimes more, a winter. course prices have went up.

rain and all during the summer. hay aint got much time to dry.

Your Spotted is probably a Blue Roan??

 I got 3 one in pic is Quarter horse 18 hands hes my huntin partner, hes walked me up to a few big bucks and he aint gun shy! Wifes got 2 a  Red Appaloosa And a 34 year old Warm blood 21 hands, had good luck with hay last year just got enough dry weather to get it in 3 cuts, we burn through about 500 bales a year, Cobbs are surely easy keepers, and luckily all ours have been too. Had to put down my other Quarter horse last fall he got into something poisonous and it trashed his liver, tried for 3 months to save him 2 injections every day and countless antibiotics vet was here every 3 days, good thing he is a freind of mine, but just could not get the poison flushed out so had to throw in the towel! Broke my other horses heart he still looks for him, but they are awsome animals, Freind of mine has 2 Cobbs and I can say they are really tough horses sure footed as they come. Hope ya have better luck this year with hay!!

18 hours ago, AKATV said:

There’s two kinds of spots that happen on the meter displays internally, one is caused by UV damage to the polarizing films on the LCD display glass caused by sunlight and it will have kind of a burned appearance.Sometimes you’ll be able to see the numbers faintly through it, sometimes not

The other kind of spot is a defect I see that generally happens with the 450S meters

 I have seen it on others, but I don’t see it very often, but you’ll have an internal defect on the liquid crystal display that will cause a black area usually in the form of a circle or similar blob shape that will obscure everything on the display under it

I call it an ink spot, as that’s what it looks like but it’s an internal failure of the liquid crystal display and cannot be repaired,
the display must be replaced.

As far as I’ve found, it’s not caused by sunlight , impact, water damage etc.

it seems to be a manufacturing defect that takes some time to go bad,my feeling is that it might be caused by hot/cold temperature cycles but have not been able to pin it down as it happens so infrequently

 

It does seem like some of the juice leaked out and is stuck there, you can see tiny pin spots that seem to have fallen out of the dot and settled onthe bottom of the display leaving little clear spots in the dot almost like pixels on a tv screen. Hopefully wont get worse I can live with it as long as it doesn’t cover up much more.

 Thanks!

Best mower i ever had totally self powered, built in GPS guidance system, maintenance free, never misses a spot, cuts when wet no matter how tall grass gets, and its only 1 HP !

self storing in winter!

PB Blaster my go to, that and a little Permatex Anti-seize when pttin back together and next time comes right off easy!

Anti-seize is the best ! you can buy for keeping any bolt from locking up and it last for years, even works on exhaust bolts for quite a while!!

gota be Permatex though!!

used to use wd also but cant get more than half of it out the can lately before it stops spraying out, the new nozzles on wd re total junk!!

Anybody out there havin any issues with there speedometer readouts?

 I got this spot that just showed up on my screen, its about dime size and looks just like the same as the numbers as far as color of it. Would it be the juice or whatever makes the numbers show up leaking out? Cant figure it out but it blocks everything underneath it and doesn’t seem to go away.

its been there for a couple weeks now, never got any water in there or anything at all, just popped up one day when I fired her up??

Hopin it dont start growing in size but it doesn’t look like its going to go away!

its on there when the key is on, and also when key is off!

Hey Fish, ya know anything about what causes those spots to show up on the meter display? It looks just like the color of the numbers on the readout, its just a bug round dot and it blocks everything under it out!

2 or 4 wheel drive Rub??

AkA,

Thanks for offerin the cover and video.

heres what I ended up doing.

 I found a video where a guy sanded out his lens with 2000 grit wet paper then Polished it out with compound and a wheel rag. I used just plain car wax to polish mine after sanding and it came out crystal clear, like new!

 It really worked great took all scratches, discoloration every flaw on the screen was totally gone. Process is sand with the 2k wet paper keeping it very wet for about 20 mins going in one direction-only! Then just wax it out. I had some pretty good scratches in it also and it really came out brand new! Paid 6 bucks for the paper so really a very cheap fix. Sounds like the same process as blade scrape!  Only issue now with screen is a dot about dime size inside the speedo itself, dont know what that is it just showed up one day when I turned it on. We headed out to camp for last week to get away from everyone for a while and brought screen with me and did it there, you really could not tell the difference between a brand new one and mine when finished! If you ever need to do one you will be really impressed with results!

Thanks again!!

We have to renew every year with our stickers, cant ride off your property without em, but they also honor out of state stickers here so if your out of state you dont need to buy a pass or anything as long as your registered in another state!

Dont have any idea what worms taste like either, all they tell you is they taste like worms!  How something like that ever got started is beyond me, but they sure do make quite a deal outa that festival. There was about 500 people there doin all kinds of worm dishes, from burgers to stew, all kinds of gear for fishin with worms, and worm shockers they put the probes in ground and run current threw them , 120 volts and the worms come crawlen out! There was an entire area where they had all kinds of devices for catchin them. 

up here we want em for fishin, we go out at night and pick up big ole crawlers on the ground that come out right after dark. I always thought everybody did that. But they take it to a whole other level.

We had a great time Fish, if I remember right we did stay in LA the night before in a campground right on the edge of a big bayou. We drove all over the eastern half of the country with a truck camper on my F 250 spent about a month and a half just checkin out the states, LA was definitely on of our favorite place everywhere we went they were the friendliest people we meant. Talk about laid back!! And yes they did have worm burgers at that worm fest !

 I didnt eat one but they actually had worms mixed in the burgers, couldn’t get past the thought of eatin them but they were sellin!! We plan on takin another trip like that in the next couple years so i will pick you up a burger and swing by for lunch!! Bring ya 2 in case you like em!! LOL!

will definitely look ya up next time we are down that way!!

3 minutes ago, Fishfiles said:

Wrong State ::  http://www.wormgruntinfestival.com/ LOL 

Your right!!

 I was thinkin Louisiana, been about 9 years but yes Florida is the right state it was in!!!

 Thanks for that !!

17 minutes ago, Fishfiles said:

Stevie , I was one of the ones that was GunHo about getting a meet and greet together , I was volunteering   myself as DJ , Cook and Bar Tender , LOL , I hope that one day it is going to happen ----right now ,  I hope I can get my riding parties back up and running every weekend , it is the thing I miss the most since Corona , there isn't much more fun then riding thru the mud in the woods with friends , eating and drinking and forgetting about your problems at least for the day 

Hey Fish, last time I was in Louisiana there was a worm festival going on!!

a little parish called Sopchoppy!!

ever been there?? Cool place!!

friendly people invite right in there home got lunch!!

loved it there!

Anytime everone is ready!!!

This country wouldnt even be here without em, its the one and only thing that does and will guarantee our freedom! Alot of people died so we could own them .

its as American as Apple pie and Grandma!!!

 I personally would never/ ever give them up period