[tabora]

Over the last 20 years are there any reports of these pieces breaking? If so I would think it would have been reported on this site for sure. If someone finds a post please share.

https://www.justanswer.com/small-engine/awkw0-724-oe-snow-blower-discharge-chute-badly-cracked.html

Broken Toro Plastic

Hello, has anybody successfully repair the plastic shoots not using holes and wire (stitches) or rivets and sheet metal. I have heated and smeared the plastic from the inside. Now I would like to layer some sort of glue. The epoxy I have says it does not bond to polypropylene plastic. I am...

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Power Max auger cover crack

Have a Power Max 826 ,model 38620. The thick plastic cover that transitions the auger housing to the chute developed a crack. I tried to JB weld it after drilling a hole at either end of the crack. Well with the icy snow we had, the JB didn't hold and the crack began to grow. So today I made a...

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[tdipaul]

There is only two reports since this site began in 2010? This is miniscule.
FWIW I'm not defending the design or the brand...I like Honda, Simpilicity and Ariens too

 

[kozal01]

No doubt there is decent plastic out there today, but saying its the same plastic as a glock pistol means nothing really, two totally different uses. For me it wasnt so much about it breaking but wear and the lack of a solid steel housing that will resist flexing and twisting. It looked like a lot of structure that was removed to accommodate the plastic. The fact that the higher end models eventually were made of steel tells me my thoughts are valid.

 

[tdipaul]

The dealer told me Toro went to steel because feedback revelead it is what consumers felt they needed, so they caved. Even if it results in a lesser product, sometimes ya gotta do whatever it takes to sell more.

 

[tabora]

There is only two reports since this site began in 2010?

I only spent about 30 seconds on the search and just posted the first three results I found... There are likely more. Toro may have replaced them all under their lifetime warranty, though?

 

[Bearguy69]

The dealer told me Toro went to steel because feedback revelead it is what consumers felt they needed, so they caved. Even if it results in a lesser product, sometimes ya gotta do whatever it takes to sell more.

Yep people wanted steel over a high strength polymer the same polymer that is used in the m-16 platform that’s pretty tough stuff.

 

[numb3rs]

Toro's plastic is tough for sure. I have seen 1st model year power maxes bucket rusted out with the plastic still completely intact lol. I also prefer the plastic chute before they changed to steel. Rotating it is a breeze.
However, I can imagine it can break in cases of abuse. Eg, you have gravel driveway and fling rocks regularly or you drop something heavy on the plastic.

 

[bisonp]

From my experience it doesnt actually "recycle" any snow anywhere, all they changed was eliminating the spot near the bottom of the chute that generally begins the clog. Theyre just adding a bunch of marketing mumbo-jumbo to make it sounds fancier and more important than it is

"Minimizes clogging and routes heavy snow away from chute and back into the auger with Toro’s patented Anti-Clogging System. "

translates to

"we took the trailing edge off the chute intake, now it doesnt clog there"

Maybe it works. But my 2001 Ariens 824, despite not being very well thought of in the Ariens world, has never clogged that I can recall in 22 years. A good auger, impeller, and chute should be all that's needed to mitigate that.

I will say that from what I've seen in Paul Sikkema's videos Toros seem throw snow better than you'd expect given their HP.

 

[leonz]

The patented anti-clog feature reduces clogging and allows the impeller
to rotate at its faster speed while discharging the snow as fast as possible
up through the chute and out and pushes out the excess snow that is being
augered to the impeller drum.

The large oval design of the impeller drum allows the impeller to do 2 things
eject the snow as fast as possible through the chute with the impeller lifting
as much as it can scoop with the 4 impeller paddles in one complete revolution.

At the same time it also casts out excess snow to prevent overloading impeller
drum and clogging it.

The United States Patent Office would never patent a gimmick and never has
in its entire history.

I can attest to this as I was able to patent an improved method of snow and
ice removal using a highly concentrated salt brine that is created using
boiling water to make the salt brine and thereby creating a concentrated
high saturated chloride brine that is heavier than salt brines created using
cold water and rock salt.

The chloride percentage content my salt brine is greatly increased due to
using boiling water to melt the solar salt used to make the heavier more
dense chloride brine for deicing and snow removal.

 

[RIT333]

Is the boiling water method used ? Sounds expensive.

 

[leonz]

I used very little propane to make my brine samples before I spent $1,200.00 on the
chemical tests in a local national laboratory to pass the NYSDOT/salt mafia requirements.

I proved that my high density chloride brine with either clear brine or molasses mixed with concrete gravel sand
and left to dry would effectively clear roads more effectively than rock salt alone at a cost of pennies per lane mile.

As far as I am concerned the Big 3 salt mafia has been paying off a lot of people in high places.








THE (&^%&&^T%ards would not even let me submit my brine samples after I used thier
designated lab in Vernont!!