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Can you stand one more "good guy" story??I went back to the elderly folks to look at a Farmall super A setting in the weeds on a maybe ..He used it to mow a field beside the house.Complete with a Woods belly mower..The starting point is does it have antifreeze in it.? It did, so cleaning the dist.cap on mag started the process.Ended up having starter rebuilt (6V) to get enough spin.It matters that the tractor is a 1948 super A and had been sitting for a few yrs...I pulled every plug and was pleased .Rolling it with spark tester in place showed great fire from mag.Zero doubt the carb would have to be gone thru.It was 1/4 full of old rusty dust.I ended up using a dremel with wire brushes it was so bad.Of course the float and needle were also...The settling bowl was not going to ever seal again so it was replaced..So today was "D" day. It fired and ran so perfect it was unreal .Of course he was there watching every minute and did he ever smile when it heard it running.She was grinning also..Next was carefully try pto to see if deck would turn.Much to my surprise the deck sounded pretty good and the horrible looking belts held up(I expected 2 turns and breakage) .Next was see if it would mow and so it did for 2 trips of about 150 yds.. Then my carb job showed a problem and decided to quit . A few mins. later it was driven back to starting point..I promised him before I left it was his turn next to run when the carb was fixed..He  seemed quite pleased with the thought..I enjoy helping folks and just love saving old iron...Look close you might see an H and a M in the background.....who knows maybe???