Where to buy different size BH77 buckets

[bumperm]

I've got a 10" and 24" pin on for my BH77. Just put the 24" on last week. What should have been a 15 or 20 minute chore, took an hour and a half. The bottom pin was not going to go through the last hole on the bucket, had to line it up and beat the snot out of it using a socket so I would damage the pin. Must be a slight miss-alignment on the bucket flange. I'll check to make sure it's line bored right next time I take it off. Thinking ahead, I brought an air hammer home from my shop.

bumper

 

[Monster5601]

I've got a 10" and 24" pin on for my BH77. Just put the 24" on last week. What should have been a 15 or 20 minute chore, took an hour and a half. The bottom pin was not going to go through the last hole on the bucket, had to line it up and beat the snot out of it using a socket so I would damage the pin. Must be a slight miss-alignment on the bucket flange. I'll check to make sure it's line bored right next time I take it off. Thinking ahead, I brought an air hammer home from my shop.
bumper

Do you have the thumb?
Sounds like it is time for a brass hammer.

 

[bumperm]

Do you have the thumb?
Sounds like it is time for a brass hammer.

Yup, I have a big brass hammer and a thumb, which doesn't help matters and may be the issue, as the pin goes smoothly until it goes into the second thumb bushing.

Besides using the pin to check hole alignment in each of the linkage parts, I think I'll also give the leading edge of the pin a little more bevel with grinder, belt, and buffing wheel.

Still waiting for fittings and hoses to add hydraulics for the thumb.

bumper