OT: Problem with electric snow blower

Is it made in Mexico?

That could explain it.-;)

I just looked at the website.
It’s a small electric underpowered motor.
Sounds like it’s overheating and opening the thermistor to protect the “delicate” wiring.

Why would you buy something like that?

Bob

-- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner

MTD is useless. I had a Cub Cadet sub-compact that spent more of its first 2 years in the shop getting repaired (under warranty) then it did at my house. I wrote several letters and made several phone calls to MTD about it and their response was always “It’s a mechanical device, things break”. I finally traded it away for a different brand. Good luck.

-- Rich, WNY, www.nyrockingchairs.com

I agree with the others that MTD is pretty much as cheap as you can get. Take that reset button right out of the circuit as most of the times it is the culprit. Then beat it to death on some snow filled driveway and buy a better one.

-- Bob Vila would be so proud of you!

What’s a snowblower???? LOL….. ;)

That is one of the reasons I like living south of the mason-dixon line.

-- Adrian ..... The 11th Commandment...."Thou Shalt Not Buy A Wobble Dado"

i saw a snow shovel once . some canadien brought it down here with him . he draw quite a crowd with it showin it off in front of his house on saturdays ! lol
im with bob#2 sounds like its heatin up

I’m thinking that it might be a teen aged snowblower. Teenagers usually only work for 2 or 3 minutes before they quit. -SST

-- Accuracy is not in your power tool, it's in you

I think Bob#2 has it pegged. The reset button is to protect from an overload (short) but many motors have built in thermal protection devices that protect from overheating. These protective devices open when a certain temperature is reached and then reset when they cool down (like in a Mr. Coffee pot- it shuts down the boiling element when the water reservoir empties).

It is possible that the mechanics of the machine need to be oiled/greased to reduce the friction and thus reducing the load on the motor. In turn, the motor would run cooler.

Hey, just my $.02.

Lew

Never had a need for a snowblower here, but mad e the mistake of purchasing a MTD lawnmower once. I thnk it lasted one season. POS!

-- North Texas

The best lawnmower I ever had was the Canadien built ones, Canada builds solid stuff. This time I went with Kubota though, up here we need a plow or very large snow blower. The farmers have 8’ snow blowers that mount to the 3-pt hitchs of their tractors, we have a 48” blower on our tractor. We only average 5’ of snow a year, plus drifting, lots of drifting. People use drift control fences all over the place.

-- Rich, WNY, www.nyrockingchairs.com

What where you thinking of? WATER … ELECTRIC. Sorry, I just couldn’t help myself. Get a real snowblower that’s supposed to make noise. There are none better than Honda. 75% of the people in Truckee (snow country) own a Honda.

-- Odie, Confucius say, "He who laughs at one's self is BUTT of joke".

Being from New Orleans, I don’t know much about snowblowers. But the idea of an electric snowblower makes about as much sense to me as trying to cut St. Augustine grass with an electric lawnmower.

Bob #2 is undoubtedly correct about it shutting down due to overheating. It could be actually overheating, or a bad thermistor, I suppose. Either way, I’d be shopping f or a REAL machine, Zuki.

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

I think I will take a look at the overheating issue\reset button.

I opted for the electric for several reasons: I can store it anywhere, don’t have to mess with gas and oil and I can use it to clear decks and stairs. For the big jobs I have a Snowbear plow for my Sidekick . . . the blower was for doing smaller areas.

-- The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them