Todays Project - What did you do today?

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Dave, didn't appear to be hardened at the broken end but the spines look like they may have been.
Welded the two parts together with a dowel pin in the middle to line them up, then undercut the shaft for the two haves of the splice to fit in. The brass shim stock is protecting the seal surface from spatter.



Sorry forgot to get a shot of the welds. Machined it down to size. The chap has to bring the snap ring over so I can cut the groove for it. Will try a rounded bottom on the grove, might reduce the stress riser effect.



You can see the different grain structure in the weld areas verses the DOM tubing I used for the splice.