Wildcard

My virgin post here but I have the four legged version of this and made a couple of changes to it to smooth out the running a bit. If you don't mind making a few minor not so original changes... The shaft for the blower (assuming it's a Buffco) is 3/8" and the ends just ride drilled cylinders on either side of the casing. This caused a lot of wear, chatter and binding. However, there is enough metal to the cast casing to drill it out for 3/8" bronze flanged bushings. When I did this to mine I drilled from the interior just deep enough to seat the bushings then drilled through the end plugs at a smaller diameter to tap and mount zirc fittings for convenience. This made a huge difference in how smoothly it pumped and ran. Additionaly, I drilled out and pressed in a bronze bushing in the handle as was mentioned earlier to keep it from roundingt out the hole. Except for the zirc fittings none of this changed the appearance significantly, maintaining most of the original character IMHO. Now I can push rather than jerk the handle down and there is less of a tendency to move it around.