Reintroduction and project thread

[wdchyd]

Savik is good stuff, I’m thinking about 15 yrs or so ago they had a big strike. They wouldn’t ship anything for 3 weeks, I was forced to buy elsewhere and I found a supplier that delivers on their trucks. I may have a few old orange packages of IHC still in my stock rack.
IIRC Savik in Trois Rivers is about dead north of us. I was buying from them in the early 80’s.

 

[deereman75]

I have a stock rack full of the orange tubes of non IH chromed 1045 for ag cylinders. I am convinced it threads nicer than the other stuff I've used....

 

[deereman75]

Another recent PITA.... Bearing went in the apron gearbox. Better part of a day to tear it apart and fix. This winter when it slows down enough I want to pull the entire headstock off and fix an oil leak.

 

[GSVette]

Another recent one. A bit of reverse engineering on what used to be a shaft coupler on a disc that was no longer available. Started as a length of 5" round 1045. These jobs are where having a nice heavy lathe pays off. View attachment 674460View attachment 674461View attachment 674462

That’s the big brother of a job I’m contemplating right now-I’ve a Deere model 31 hydraulic auger that some dipstick welded the a 9” auger to the coupler-can’t find a new, used or reproduction coupler for the auger drive anywhere so I may have to make it. It will certainly tax my nearly non-existent machining skills but I’ll certainly learn something.

How did you reverse engineer the damaged coupling? Just eyeball and experience? Or did you have some drawings/plans for the original design?

 

[deereman75]

Basically I was given those parts and a napkin sketch with some rough dimensions of what it needs to attach to. Just one of those things you sort of figure out how to do after doing it enough times.

Do you have a picture of what you're dealing with? I've had to do a few emergency butchery repairs in fertilizer augers for one of my customers before. One of them we were able to weld on a small U joint off the shelf from a parts store in place of the original coupler.

That’s the big brother of a job I’m contemplating right now-I’ve a Deere model 31 hydraulic auger that some dipstick welded the a 9” auger to the coupler-can’t find a new, used or reproduction coupler for the auger drive anywhere so I may have to make it. It will certainly tax my nearly non-existent machining skills but I’ll certainly learn something.

How did you reverse engineer the damaged coupling? Just eyeball and experience? Or did you have some drawings/plans for the original design?

 

[GSVette]

Appreciate your insights-I’ll get you a couple of photos when I get over to my shop this weekend-maybe you’ll have some ideas as to other ways to get back the ability to switch augers. 9” is good enough for most everything I have in mind but I’d like to be able to swap out the auger when I want/need to.

One additional detail-I’m just getting started on understanding this project-I have plans to remove the hydraulic motor from the 3 point boom assembly so that I can disassemble the coupler from the shaft and see just what they really did.

This is one of my winter projects-I hope to be able to fabricate whatever I need using my recently acquired vertical mill- it probably isn’t ideal for making a replacement coupling ( should that be what I need to do) but I’ll just have to figure out how to make it work.

 

[deereman75]

Here's my new welding table. Been using it for a bit now and I'm incredibly happy with it. Frame is 2x4x0.125 tubing, and the top is a spare lathe faceplate I had.

 

[wdchyd]

That’s a great idea, luv the slots for bolt up fixtures

 

[deereman75]

I had wanted an acorn platten for years but never found one.... Had this spare 40" faceplate and finally decided to just make something.

It's really been nice having the slots, also being cast all the spatter and such doesn't stick

 

[deereman75]

Couple recent things.

First one is a product I highly recommend. Norton blaze rapid strip wheels. Absolutely magic at removing paint, rust, and mill scale. Next up is a pump housing at the start of being rebuilt.