Look what I found! (long...but interesting)

[scott_vt]

Well, I'm not going to do anything unless I'm sure I can get the right kind of replacement bolts/nuts. But when I do, I'll let you guys know how it goes.

Mornin George,
Well if you know someone that owns a set of calipers, and there are enough threads showing to see if they are coarse or fine thread, we can figure out what you have. Most likely they are standard bolts, that piece isnt old enough for it to have any mongrel bolts on it IMO !

 

[Danno1]

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McMaster Carr sells square nuts. Plow bolts too.

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[N80]

McMaster Carr sells square nuts. Plow bolts too.

I didn't think about them, but I should have. They have everything else!

I'm going to do like you guys said and soak these nuts and bolts for a while. (They're already soaking in WD-40 but I'll get something better on them this weekend If I can get them off without tearing them up, I'll look around and see if I can find matching stuff. There is actually a small fastener manufacturing plant near here that says they will do custom stuff, so if I hit a dead end, I'll check with them. Of course they may have minimun orders in the thousands!.

Here is another thing that is curious. On both this plow and the middlebuster (they came from the same place) the top link attachment point is splayed out. The top link pin is barely able to bridge it. I wonder what would have done this?

 

[SPYDERLK]

Here is another thing that is curious. On both this plow and the middlebuster (they came from the same place) the top link attachment point is splayed out. The top link pin is barely able to bridge it. I wonder what would have done this?

A Cat 2 toplink ball maybe?
larry

 

[Mike058]

PB Blaster is terrific for rusted or seized parts.

I'm going to do like you guys said and soak these nuts and bolts for a while. (They're already soaking in WD-40 but I'll get something better on them this weekend If I can get them off without tearing them up, I'll look around and see if I can find matching stuff. There is actually a small fastener manufacturing plant near here that says they will do custom stuff, so if I hit a dead end, I'll check with them. Of course they may have minimun orders in the thousands!.

 

[Glowplug]

PB Blaster is terrific for rusted or seized parts.

I agree. PB Blaster is in a league of its own when it comes to freeing rusted frozen parts. Other products MAY be able to get the job done but none like PB Blaster.

 

[N80]

I'll give it a try. I'm going down there in a few hours.

 

[N80]

Here's a little update. First, I have not bothered trying to fix this plow up. Its working fine as is and to get all the necessary bolts off would require a lot of work (PB Blaster and friends did not help) and this plow really isn't nice enough to spend any money on.

But, I did find one thing out. If you look at the pics at the beginning of this post you'll see a close up of a figure stamped into the back of the moldboard. As you can see the words in it are unreadable and the symbol was not familiar to me. Well, this weekend I was driving to the mountains and stopped at a tractor place in Shelby, NC. The guy had tons of rusty junk out front. Even had a single bottom plow exactly like the one in this post. He had several older single bottom plows that looked like the good old ones but they had all been broken and cobbled together with other stuff. Anyway, we talked to the old guy for a good while and as we were pulling out of the lot he came out and handed me a parts catalog from Temco. In it there are plow parts made by Crescent. And on one of the colums was that same little symbol and it is for Crescent Forge and Shovel Company in Havanna, IL! So at least that little mystery is solved. The company does not have a website but they are apparently still in business.

 

[Glowplug]

That sounds like an excellent lead!
BTW, I was in Shelby on Friday the 19th!