Busted Landscaping Rake/Rock Rake

   / Busted Landscaping Rake/Rock Rake #11  
Can you drill it out and put a 1" bolt in?
 
   / Busted Landscaping Rake/Rock Rake #12  
Can you drill it out and put a 1" bolt in?
 
   / Busted Landscaping Rake/Rock Rake #13  
Hmm? assuming do dealer or warranty help.. how about torch thru the bottom.. sleave with a pipe, and then use a bolt or pin / dowel stock?

Soundguy
 
   / Busted Landscaping Rake/Rock Rake #14  
Hmm? assuming do dealer or warranty help.. how about torch thru the bottom.. sleave with a pipe, and then use a bolt or pin / dowel stock?

Soundguy
 
   / Busted Landscaping Rake/Rock Rake #15  
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Are you sure its not a bolt? maybe there is a nut under the rake frame. )</font>

It's pretty obvious the nut is on top.
 
   / Busted Landscaping Rake/Rock Rake #16  
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Are you sure its not a bolt? maybe there is a nut under the rake frame. )</font>

It's pretty obvious the nut is on top.
 
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  • Thread Starter
#17  
Ron,
That pin goes all the way through and is welded on the back side of that plate and is welded to the bottom frame.

Farwell,
I took a file to it to see if it was hardened and the file cut inside the metal pretty easy. I think a hardened pin wouldn't have broken like it did.

DanielAlexander,
It's a machined pin with threads machined on the end. It also has a hole drilled in the threads. A cotter pin is put through the hole which keeps the bolt from coming loose.

Soundguy,
Thats a great idea. Kind of wish I'd done that. I went ahead and cleaned up the pin and removed the paint from the plate. I beveled the inside of the hole and put the pin back in the hole. I welded around the pin and inside the bevel (first weld). Example --\| |/-- Then I welded another pass around the pin and plate again (wider weld this time). The last pass I made was the widest weld I made. This weld was like a snake weld, up and down. As I was welding this snake pattern up and down, I would stop for a brief second so the weld would puddle up or build up pretty good. I put it back together and tried it out, so far so good.
 

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  • Thread Starter
#18  
Ron,
That pin goes all the way through and is welded on the back side of that plate and is welded to the bottom frame.

Farwell,
I took a file to it to see if it was hardened and the file cut inside the metal pretty easy. I think a hardened pin wouldn't have broken like it did.

DanielAlexander,
It's a machined pin with threads machined on the end. It also has a hole drilled in the threads. A cotter pin is put through the hole which keeps the bolt from coming loose.

Soundguy,
Thats a great idea. Kind of wish I'd done that. I went ahead and cleaned up the pin and removed the paint from the plate. I beveled the inside of the hole and put the pin back in the hole. I welded around the pin and inside the bevel (first weld). Example --\| |/-- Then I welded another pass around the pin and plate again (wider weld this time). The last pass I made was the widest weld I made. This weld was like a snake weld, up and down. As I was welding this snake pattern up and down, I would stop for a brief second so the weld would puddle up or build up pretty good. I put it back together and tried it out, so far so good.
 
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  • Thread Starter
#19  
View from underneight the plate.
 

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#20  
View from underneight the plate.
 

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