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  1. kthompson

    How to save on company's health insurance cost

    To begin with I am not trying to solicit business, I am a local agent with 30 years in this industry and only trying to share some ideas that can help you lower your health insurance cost. Some of you are doing all these things while others may benefit. I am only licensed in the State Of South...
  2. kthompson

    Volvo EC 45 excavator voltage

    Good morning and pray each of you are doing great. Been a while since have been here but back to topic that first brought me here, electric over hydraulic not working at least when first cranked up. I have worked with the issue all these years mostly as my need for the machine had got...
  3. kthompson

    Excavator overheating when driving it.

    I am helping a friend find issue with his Volvo EC35 machine that overheats only when driving. It can sit and dig and runs fine. He bought it used with about 2,000 hours on it. When he first go it would have to drive it for at least 15 minutes and it would over heat now on a couple of minutes...
  4. kthompson

    Snapping cable or chains.

    On another thread the danger of snapped cable was made very real. It made me wonder if there is difference in the way a cable and chain react when snapped. It is my impression a cable will always whip when snapped. In my chain snapping experience have never had one to really whip, normally...
  5. kthompson

    Computer Repair person

    Reading a thread on bidding reminded me of a company I know who had to have hard drive replaced on computer with bids on it. Computer person said he could save the info on damaged hard drive. Just needed to do so with software and setup as his shop. He later said it was in worse shape than he...
  6. kthompson

    Volvo engine oil drain plug

    I have a EC 45 Volvo Mini Excavator with a Mitsubishi engine. It is due for first oil change since I bought it used. The engine oil drain plug does not want to come out. It has made me wonder if it could be left hand threads. I have a good friend who has tractor dealership and he says he has...
  7. kthompson

    Control Panel on EC 45 Volvo

    I purchased a used EC 45 Volvo (mini) excavator about two years back. Volvo had just replaced the control panel in it. The machine is an open canopy unit but over the last year or more has been about 100% parked either under shelter or under trap. About a month or so back the control panel began...
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