Mysfyt
Platinum Member
In your top picture, that bore is too far gone to try and bore it and put in a sleeve. Does the welding shop at your cc have a cnc plasma? Or better yet, a water jet? It would be a great project for a student to make a replica of that.Got the packer all torn down today and like anything that old it has problems. One problem that is easily, if not cheaply, fixed is more damage to the 15 inch wheels than was apparent at first. 12 of the 21 wheels on the front axle were broken or had cracks around the inner hub. I am hoping that the guys down in the welding shop need practice at repairing cast iron and maybe I can get off with just buying 3 new ones instead of 11. What I am more worried about is the "wallered out" bores on the castings. I guess I will have to see if a machine shop around here could help me. Back in the day when I worked at the machine shop for a coal company we would have probably bored out the casting and pressed a brass bushing in there for the shaft to ride on. A couple of those bores really got into the casting pretty far though so not sure what might work. I plan to put Polypropylene bushings in the castings instead of wood but the lip that secures the axle side of the bearing is gone so there is no support there. Might work for a while if I put some thrust washers against it and held them against the casting with a lock collar. Not sure this old thing is worth what I suspect proper repairs are going to cost so I might have to get some baling wire and duct tape and go to work!
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