What are you up to in the workshop?
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massey 6480
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What grease did you use can you remember. It was always shaft issues with the bed in the one here . But bearings gone in 2 so going to strip them all and replace them .
Win
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Yeah someone is coming out to measure the ones on the other spreader, would be nice to have them on before we use it.
I think it was this crowd https://www.lotusdesignsni.com/ that advertised decals on done deal, they are in NI so should be no bother posting to you
headcase
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"I think" it was 00 liquid grease but i cant remember
matbro
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The cousin owns a mint kuhn fertilizer twin spinner and can't be stopped from bending the levers on the front. he puts in a massive top link, the type with the removeable ball and pulls the spool valve, then the ram shoots over and bends the levers against the end of top link. looks like i have to cut down the levers so they don't hit the top link. he wants to weld the levers together so the mechanism to disable one side is defeated, since he keeps twisting up the levers and ending with one spinner not closing. I thought about welding a strap behind the top link so that he would be forced to use the lower hole (there's two), or a smaller top link.
it's really a shame but i understand making the thing foolproof, and when a machine is too complex the extra features don't tend to get used.
get a square metal file and turn that round hole into a square hole. then push in your 1/2" extension bar into the hole you just made and turn the breaker bar.
it's really a shame but i understand making the thing foolproof, and when a machine is too complex the extra features don't tend to get used.
get a square metal file and turn that round hole into a square hole. then push in your 1/2" extension bar into the hole you just made and turn the breaker bar.
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massey 6480
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Lads have a sheared bolt in a blind hole have it drilled out right angle drill adapter and a reverse drill bit and now it`s loose . But it`s still 10mm deep in the hole .Drill is now only spinning it on the spot cant bite in to it to bring it out . Anyone got a idea how to extract it . It`s only an 8mm hole . Have a magnet pick up tool but magnet is too big .
drew
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Is it turning in the threads or just floating loose in the bottom? Would a long torx tap into it and thread it on out?
Or if it’s very loose would a small pick with a bend on the end manage to snag it and bring it out
massey 6480
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The drill bit has it spun out of the threads . It feels to be just sitting on the outer casing now . The drill bit has little to no hole drilled in it i`d say so cant drive a torx in to it can feel it wiggle with a screw drive . This is the second one , First was the same but hole wasnt blind so tipped out the stub from the otherside .
Arthur
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Jay Dee
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Any chance of a touch of the arc welder, have done it before with the rod loose in the holder, then when it strikes pull back leaving the rod stuck to the stud if you get me?
massey 6480
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This is where the bolts are space is very limited. Ended up getting the loose sheared bolt out with chewing gum on the edge of another bolt 😅
bk1991
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That would test ur patience
massey 6480
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And the final bolt is out . Had to take off part of the water pump off to get at it with the drill .
Agri-Eng
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A small job, that I was picking away at, over the last few days. Today's welcome sunshine was great for drying the paint.
Anyone want to hazard a guess, as to their intended purpose?
Anyone want to hazard a guess, as to their intended purpose?
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drew
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Track eradicator tines on the 30?
Agri-Eng
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Hopefully they won't turn out to be!
Agri-Eng
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Good guess. Yes, they are clamps to attach Amazone type wheel track eradicator tines to the MF 30 drill.
Agri-Eng
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Yes, we got the two mechanisms/linkages for the MF 30 grain drill from @MF30 last year, but as it was getting late in the season they never got fitted then.
In the interim, as the genuine MF times are now an obsolete parts, we end up sourcing a set of eradicator tines, with helper springs, from Spalding's, which I think are for an Amazone drill.
A small bit of measuring up, a couple of lunch times drawing up what was needed, and with a bit of help from a very talented local man, who built his own CNC plasma cutter from scratch, the clamps in the photos were the end result.
They turned out better than I thought they would, as I drew up the dxfs to cut the plates with slots and tabs, so everything fits together like Lego and self jigs/aligns, without the need for trying to clamp them together, while keeping everything square at the same time.
We only need 4, but I always like to have a few spares in stock, just in case, so I got my CNC plasma man to make up 5. We used 10mm plate to make them, but we probably could have gone a bit lighter and used 8mm plate.
