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[wareagle50]

Now that is really nice work. Better than the tools coming over from Asia. Even the color coding looks professional.

:dance1:

Well thank you sir. I think the pics make them look a little better than they really are. I cut the heads out of 1"x3" angle iron and the handles are old galv trampoline poles. I painted them and wrapped the handles with sandpaper tape. They work pretty dang good.

 

[3930dave]

Bearing Outer Race Removal

An old man showed this trick to me many years ago. Now that I am an old man, I thought I'd pass it on to the young readers of TBN.

Remove the axle, inner race and bearing. Lay a bead of weld on the surface of the outer race with a stick welder. The object is to heat up the race; then let it cool and shrink. You can usually pull it out with your fingers, but a tool with a hook on it is sometimes needed.

It works especially good on GM auto rear axle bearings. Without using this method, they can be near impossible to remove.


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Slick ! That should really cut down on the # of colourful words that type of job creates !

Rgds, D.

 

[graydog111]

Hey yall, first post here. Wanted to show off my fire rakes i made. I didnt want to pay 50-60 bucks for this simple tool so i made two of them from scap for $0.

Never heard of a fire rake, but after Googling it, I learned a lot about them. Yours looks as professional and useable as those shown for sale on line. I'm putting a couple of them on my "to do" list.

 

[stuckmotor]

Never heard of a fire rake, but after Googling it, I learned a lot about them. Yours looks as professional and useable as those shown for sale on line. I'm putting a couple of them on my "to do" list.

Those rakes bring back memories. When I was a kid the state forestry commission or somebody issued two rakes and a backpack spray tank to my grandfather. He'd load the tank onto my red wagon and let me play fireman. They broke the rakes out to rake leaves. I don't remember how well they worked for that purpose.

 

[wareagle50]

They work very well for fire brakes in our pine forests down south. They also work pretty dang good raking small limbs and stuff after cutting up a tree.

 

[Oliver1655]

To type a degree sign °, hold the <Alt> key down then using the number pad with the <num-lock> on type 248 then release the <Alt> key.

 

[Kernopelli]

QUOTE=graydog111;3705905]Bearing Outer Race Removal

An old man showed this trick to me many years ago. Now that I am an old man, I thought I'd pass it on to the young readers of TBN.

Remove the axle, inner race and bearing. Lay a bead of weld on the surface of the outer race with a stick welder. The object is to heat up the race; then let it cool and shrink. You can usually pull it out with your fingers, but a tool with a hook on it is sometimes needed.

It works especially good on GM auto rear axle bearings. Without using this method, they can be near impossible to remove.


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I will attest that this works! Several years ago, I had a blind hole race that I could not remove and a TBN member told me to use this method. It literally fell out after putting a bead on it. Recently, a coworker asked me how to remove an impossible race and I told him to do this. He was a little skeptical but ended up trying it and it worked like a charm.

 

[Gordon Gould]

Bearing Outer Race Removal


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Thank you graydog111 - That is a great tip/trick.

 

[jwmorris]

Here is a video of a tool I made to chunk 44 lbs of bowling balls.

 

[Jd1a]

That will cure the 7-10 split.