This is Hacker Public Radio episode 3,693 for Wednesday, the 28th of September 2022.
Today's show is entitled, fixing the automatic cut off mechanism to an electric more.
It is hosted by Rowan and is about five minutes long.
She carries a clean flag, the summary is, Rowan describes fixing the safety mechanism to his
electric motor.
Hi, welcome to another episode of Hacker Public Radio.
Today I will be trying to fix the start and hold bar for my lawnmower, the bar that you
have to take the safety bar out, hold in to keep the mower running.
The button was getting very finicky, like sometimes you press the start button, then you
have to pull the lever back and then the mower will start.
And then you keep holding handles, but it would not always stay on, you hear this little
click and it would go out.
So I took the handlebar apart, there are pictures in the show notes to help understand.
Basically, there is an orange button on the outside to push down, this presses down, like
on the slider mechanism, that lets the handlebar slide forward, which then pushes plastic
prong into a switch.
And I think what was happening is that the spring that provides some resistance for the
slide mechanism wasn't, I don't know if it was all the way down in, but anyway, it
was letting the slide, the prong, the pushes into the switch sort of slide up and over
top of the switch part, and then it would turn off.
I'm hoping I tighten the spring up a little bit, and I sort of tested it, and this
is a simple state, but sort of put that together, and it feels like it's like I'm not
hearing that clicking noise I would hear when I would hold the handles, and then it would
pop off the switch.
So I'm hoping that by tightening the spring up a little bit, and maybe repositioning it,
that that'll take care of it, there was also a crack in the plastic casing that holds
this all together.
And so I took some super glue, and I'm super glueing that.
So right now, I am letting it dry, and then later tonight I'll put it back together
and see if it works.
Okay, we're back.
I reassembled the upper arm part, the starter stuff on the bars.
The biggest thing was making sure to get the wiring back in the right place.
I put it back together, I now have this assembly attached back to the lawn mower, and
it's plugged up, and this is the electric lawn mower from my previous episodes, and so
far so good, the light that shows that the battery is on and the keys in.
So I'm about to try, if I can start it up, and hopefully it will keep mowing, if I
hold the bar then, not a good sign, I held it in, and nothing, okay, well, something
is not right, I don't know if it's not touching, okay, no, I don't know, I guess it's
a little better in that it's completely broken now, instead of partially broken, but
yes, I'll have to take this apart, and try again, because it's not making any contact.
There's no motor trying to kick over anything, that's very unhandy, all right, well, I'll
be back at some point with an update.
There, well, I got myself again, so this mower has the front attachment, so you can actually
attach like a weedwacker to the front of it, or an auxiliary tool, and I was looking
down, because it's like now nighttime, so I'm sort of doing this by porch light, and I'm
like, oh wait, the switch, and it was on auxiliary and not know, so when I put it on
mo, hold the button in, and pull the lever, the sounds of mowing, all right, and it's
now staying, I didn't have any problems with the clicking out or stopping, I'm going
to call this success.
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