Gallery, Projects and General > Project Logs
Mounting a Tractor Hedge Flail
awemawson:
Now the obligatory trip through the blasting cabinet and a coat of nice 'Ford Blue' using the magic 'one coat rust preventing' stuff. Came out quite nicely. I'll have to leave it all over night before re-starting re-assembly of the controls.
So after lunch I had better try and get that other bearing out of the roller tube
awemawson:
So after much violence, and the application of lots of heat the remaining bearing eventually came out. It's in a deep recess which made it rather inaccessible. I ended up physically breaking out the cage, balls, and inner race, then raising the outer to cherry red and cutting it with a cold chisel. The housing has a couple of burrs but I don't think that they'll be an issue.
awemawson:
So now to sort out the end brackets. The one that is pinned to the axle shaft had been significantly bent getting the axle out. I knocked out the roll pin, and with the shaft in the vice heated the bracket to a dull red, at which point it would come off the shaft.
Then I flipped it onto fire bricks on the (thick) welding bench, continued to heat the bent bit to cherry red, shuffled it onto the bench and beat it flat with the very sledge that had bent it in the first place :ddb:
When things had cooled down a bit, I erased the evidence of hammering with a sanding disk, cleaned them up with a rotary wire brush, and gave them a coat of zinc rich quick drying primer, followed by a coat of satin black aerosol, also quick drying.
In the mean time I cleaned up the ends of the shaft, and re-tapped the male (shaft) and female (bracket) threads with a die and tap to hopefully avoid problems on re-assembly.
awemawson:
So hopefully tomorrow I will be back on track re-fitting the control standard in it's new elevated position along with all the spool valve remote levers. I also have the heavy duty top link to fit - it looks very beefy
awemawson:
Another fine day so I re-assembled the hydraulic control fixings. First I put back the extended standard holder and standard to check we now have the right height
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version