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Aha!

So it has been a good day more or less..

Interesting about the suspending usb ports. I can’t say I’ve run into that at least from the OpSystem. Many motherboards will suspend a USB port if it draws too much current (you know, ye olde crowbar circuit) and you need to power off/back on to get it back. Will file that info for future reference, thanks.

Face, doesn’t that USB hub that fell out of the sky have a power supply? If so than it should be able to power your stuff that the laptop can’t. See if your drive works off the hub..

And I successfully completed the brake job on the Subaru (not really earth shattering, the completion was necessitated by loss of glowing-orb-in-the-sky visual rays causing the suspension of brake work with 75% of it completed. Then it became a matter of when I had the time it was raining. When I had other things to do it wasn’t raining. Today it wasn’t raining (the ground was moist but I put down a pad salvaged from a freight elevator as an interface. ;-) Brakes are completed but I discovered that one of the lugnuts had been crossthreaded and had messed up the threads on the stud. In the absence of a set of metric dies to clean up the threads, I used another of the lugnuts to accomplish a similar though not as complete function. Then I sent Son #2 out to an autoparts place to procure two new nuts while I installed the brake pads.

And I put the carburetor back in the Little Red Ridingthing.. The good news is that it starts and runs. The bad news is that it did sustain some damage of unknown proportions. It blows a lot of oil smoke also which probably indicates bad news (since it wasn’t doing that until it ingested the throttleplate parts.) Haven’t thought much on what the next step will be. Replace motor? Rebuild motor myself? Run it until it dies before making any decision? Pop the head off for a visual lookie-see for stuff embedded in the piston/ one of the tiny screws wedged between piston and cylinder wall? Right now the first order of business is decreasing the height of the advanced grass substitute to discourage the eight-legged-bloodsucking democrats, er, ticks..

Since the Little Red Ridingthing has headlights I rode around decreasing the height of the advanced grass substitute until well past dark. As of now half the area that I mow is completed and what remains is best mowed under glowing-orb-that-causes-climate-change illumination since mowing around Mrs. NoC’s roses and thingies requires better all-encompassing illumination not possible with headlights in the boo-dark. ;-)

Sounds kinda like some damage to the rings, or thereabouts.

You’d need to disassemble the motor down to the components; piston, rings, cylinder wall, to see how much of each was damaged. In other words,

a
lot
of
work.

Perhaps you can find a donor assembly somewhere, which died only because someone didn’t understand carburetors and gasoline, and let it die because of that rather than extensive use.

Frnkenmotors are always a good solution anyway.