04-16-2020, 06:06 PM
I wasted several more hours on this thing yesterday trying to get these bushes inserted. I made an improvement to the end of the shaft I was using to apply drive from the tractor wheel to the puller
I needed to drive that bush another 1.24" so I made a chalk mark on the tractor wheel and got ready to drive it 24 turns. I got 7 turns in before the threads failed.
I had another think about how this was going, decided to give my hydraulic log splitter a chance at it. I was trying to nut out how I might make a scissor arrangement to multiply the force available from the log splitter, decided to give it a try just pushing directly and see what happened. This is what happened.
The chicom log splitter just pushed the damn thing all the way in. Within another half hour I had all four bushes all the way in, without even applying heat.
Didn't take any pics of the arrangement with the splitter, but essentially I suspended the end of the loader arm between the ram and end plate, used a few chunks of steel plate as spacers and the stripped nut from my threaded puller as an arbor. The splitter has a label that says '25 ton' but it must surely be producing far more force than that. Very frustrated to have wasted so much time on this but now I just need to do a bit more chamfering of the outer part of the barrels with the angle grinder and I can move on to the linkage arrangement.
I needed to drive that bush another 1.24" so I made a chalk mark on the tractor wheel and got ready to drive it 24 turns. I got 7 turns in before the threads failed.
I had another think about how this was going, decided to give my hydraulic log splitter a chance at it. I was trying to nut out how I might make a scissor arrangement to multiply the force available from the log splitter, decided to give it a try just pushing directly and see what happened. This is what happened.
The chicom log splitter just pushed the damn thing all the way in. Within another half hour I had all four bushes all the way in, without even applying heat.
Didn't take any pics of the arrangement with the splitter, but essentially I suspended the end of the loader arm between the ram and end plate, used a few chunks of steel plate as spacers and the stripped nut from my threaded puller as an arbor. The splitter has a label that says '25 ton' but it must surely be producing far more force than that. Very frustrated to have wasted so much time on this but now I just need to do a bit more chamfering of the outer part of the barrels with the angle grinder and I can move on to the linkage arrangement.
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