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Rebirth of a 6 Foot Flail Mower
mattinker:
Andrew,
I must say, I do like it when you start unravelling old sweaters and knitting new ones with the wool!
Regards, Matthew.
DMIOM:
--- Quote from: mattinker on September 30, 2016, 04:25:24 AM ---Andrew,
I must say, I do like it when you start unravelling old sweaters and knitting new ones with the wool!
Regards, Matthew.
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Me too! :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:
Dave
AdeV:
--- Quote from: awemawson on September 29, 2016, 09:33:45 AM ---Ade - you're a Ghoul !
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Hehehe :thumbup:
--- Quote from: awemawson on September 29, 2016, 09:33:45 AM ---I had to visit the dentist to have a tooth pulled out :bugeye:
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:worthless: :lol:
Anyway, how does a squashed finger lead to having a tooth pulled? :Doh:
awemawson:
--- Quote from: mattinker on September 30, 2016, 04:25:24 AM ---Andrew,
I must say, I do like it when you start unravelling old sweaters and knitting new ones with the wool!
Regards, Matthew.
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..ah - you spotted that the family tradition lives on :lol:
awemawson:
So Friday brought another delivery - this time the laser cut 10 mm thick steel disks that will form the ends of the roller. One will be inserted about 6 inches from the end, with a second at the end, both pierced by the axle shaft. There will be radial holes drilled in the tube where the deep disk goes so that I can plug weld it in position. Using this construction ensures a reasonable alignment of the axles at each end.
Rest of the day and this morning was taken up dismantling the gear box. It put up quite a struggle. One bearing inner had to be sliced and cracked off. The crown wheel was mighty tight on it's shaft, I had to rig packing within the casing to support it in order to use the 60 ton press on the end of the shaft. Then the last major pain was removing the 1.5" 16 tpi nut that adjusts the pre-load on the taper bearings. Originally equipped with two wimpy holes for a pin wrench there was no way it was coming off that way. Eventually I gradually increased the size of one of the holes until the hole met the outside periphery of the nut allowing me to use a small cold chisel on the remaining bit next to the thread to crack the nut. Then it was mine and I could unscrew it.
Probably need to make a new one as I can only find metric ones listed.
Still now at last I can put in the remaining bearing and seal order. :thumbup:
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