OK so now they tell me the paint won't be with me until Friday
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This is a real pain as rain is forecast - so I've trundled the folder back into the welding shop - looks like it won't get painted until the back end of next week as apparently I have to go away on a long weekend - ah well.
So before tucking it away I thought I'd try and get some of the adjustments approximately correct. The setting for the pivot point of the apron was way out, as one side was lower than the other. The trunion that holds the bearing is trapped between two adjusting grub screws, and is intended to move up and down in a slot . Obvious why one side was wrong - the top adjuster grub screw on that side was seized solid - someone has obviously had a good swing on an Allen key as the hex socket has 'exploded' outwards. Fortunately as it is the upper one, it is screwed into a piece of steel bridging the slot, and the allen cap screws retaining it were able to be loosened so I could remove the steel and grub screw for a little talking to with a hot torch.
So I got the steel hot enough to burn off the new paint, but still the allen key wouldn't budge - even with a long 'torque amplifier' applied. So OK we need to cool it. Nearest water was the trough with all the 'teeth' derusting. I was holding it with the allen key in the hex hole of the grub screw. Plunged it in to a loud sizzling and foaming, and as I pulled it out, the flipping screw meekly turned in the steel as though it had never been seized. Thermal shock I suppose but really you'd expect it to be loose hot and tight cool. But hey - I'm not arguing.
So at least now it's loose, but needs replacing. Being the upper adjuster it just stops the trunion rising too far but takes no weight. The lower one is massive, but this one is ONLY 5/8" BSF
So if anyone has a 2" long 5/8" BSF allen socket grub screw I'd like to hear from you !
It's the middle screw of the three through the horizontal plate in this picture (pre-primering):