On Nov 1, 9:43*am, Art wrote:
Art wrote:
Dave Balderstone wrote:
In article , Art
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FYI -

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The investment firm that owns Tecumseh Power has determined that it
will close their small engine business. Tecumseh‚s manufacturing
facility will close on December 15, 2008.
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Tecumseh will continue to support service parts, technical service
and warranty from their Grafton, Wisconsin facility until the end of
the year. After that time, we anticipate that these services will be
provided by a third party that has not yet been named.
/quote

(Sorry I can't name the source.)

Platinum Equity just bought it for $51 million in cash. Now they're
closing it?

They are closing the small engine division. No mention was made of the
Peerless division that essentially owns the market for rider and garden
tractor transmissions. It's just a guess on my part but I think the
engine side is not nearly as profitable. The emissions standards have
been steadily tightened which forces current engines off the market
after just a few years. That requires a pretty big on-going r&d expense
to stay in the engine business. Gone are the days of designing an engine
and building the same thing for 20 years with only minor changes.

Well it looks like want to "focus the company on its core business of
making compressors for refrigerators"

http://www.lawnandlandscape.com/news/news.asp?ID=6984

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No pity, and its actualy good ridence. Guess it was just too muich
topproduce sucha cheap crappy product as their engines were and then
suffer through a waranty period of free labor andparts for such junk.
Its a hell of a note when you can buy a made in china OHV engine that
is pretty well identical to a top end HONDA model and most all
internal and external parts fit from the Honda tothe china made engine
and have it run and run trouble free for a ong period of time. I
bought a 13 hp electric starat OHV made in china motor for a log
splitter and its been used hard and put up wet for three or 4 years
now. I paid less than $200 for it (less battery) and its never fialed
me yet. Pressure lube with filter.......runs wide open for 7 to 10
hours a day when used and used weeks ata time, yet I had problems with
any Tech engine when used for lesser periods of time. I Used to have
to replace the engine on my vac cart every two or three years (tec
engine) now I have a China made engine installed whichcostme less than
$100 and its on its 3rd year and runs like a champ. Tec was never
anything but junk for the most part..and if it was not for Sears/
Crapsman useing their junk engines with rhew Crapsman brand on them
they would have been gone long ago.