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| awemawson:
Then I started loosening all the various bolts that hold the two spars on. They were all amazingly quite easy to undo - I've been spraying 'Plus Gas' on them for the last few weeks. But while underneath I made a VERY useful discovery. The right hand spar is mounted on a sliding 'Tee nut' arrangement, meaning that the spacing of the spars is adjustable by up to 3" - so all my worrying about exact off sets for mounting the jaw plates onto the spars is irrelevant - they can be made symmetrical and adjusted to fit the brackets :thumbup: |
| awemawson:
So now to support the tank so that the spars can be removed safely. I ended up placing axle stands under the right hand side, and matching the integral jack that is at the rear with a pile of timber baulks - gently lifting with the fork lift it to take the weight off the legs that are part of the spars, and transfering it to the new arrangement. Took a bit of fiddling, as it is now balanced on five points (the four mentioned and the flail head itself) |
| awemawson:
So get on with it and remove those spars :lol: OK here you go then: |
| awemawson:
I've been thinking about this job for quite a while, and as usual things seem more difficult in imagination than reality if you just take a step at a time. So now I need to start cutting metal and make the new spars incorporating the 'jaw plates' from the Bomford flail and the design of the rear end from the Twoes flail. So a bit of heavy cutting and welding - lets hope my plasma cutter still works, it's not been out to play for months ! |
| awemawson:
So take a 3 metre length of 100 x 100 x 6 mm box section and cut it to length. Shame the chop saw won't quite cut 100 mm so we had to do a quick rotation of the box half way ! |
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