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| smiffy:
Being involved with the local agricultural community brings a never ending pile of jobs . A pair of axle trunnion blocks turned up from a 20 ton 4 wheel grain trailer . These were long past there sell by date . The original plastic bushes were worn through and the pivot pin had worn the hole very egg shaped . I managed to set it up in the 4 jaw chuck and bore the block out , then turn up 2 oil impregnate bushes and 1 spacer bush for each block. The u bolts are threaded 27 mm x 2 pitch fortunately I have a die that size so was able to clean the threads up . Just waiting for some new nuts to be delivered and the job is finished . The pins are a bit worn but will have to be or as I do not want to make new ones . The holes ended up 85mm bore and the new bushes bored out to 75 mm . All took over a day to complete and produced a large bag of plastic swarf . I hope that the farmer appreciates the amount of work involved in doing work like this but I doubt it as they always moan at the bill |
| awemawson:
Nice job :thumbup: My farmer ‘clients’ never moan at the bill as I never give them one. I refuse to work for money, I didn’t retire to still have work pressures. I tell them I’ll do jobs as a favour and in the future they can help ME when my back is against the wall :clap: |
| kayzed1:
Same as Andrew me, i did once ask for a bottle of wine as payment..never again :doh: I tend to do all the old stuff as it is mainly of the smaller sizes, also bits for ploughs and the like..Just made a gear for the reverse on a quad bike...two bottles of wine that one. They always bring metal to do the job to, ask what is it! lump of steel bin in the yard years :clap: Nice work BTW. Lyn. |
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