some work pictures

[dirty4fun]

Darn it Tom you are the man. What great work you do, thanks so much for taking time to share some of it with us.

 

[stretch]

Tom,

I've spent the last half hour speeding through this. Incredible work. I always see your truck around and a lot of your pics are within a mile of me I enjoyed seeing the ones from the Mareks' yard, my family's known them since Frankie Marek and Louie Fiondella were still around.

Keep it up! Someone's gotta fix our screwups.

 

[siduramaxde]

Tom, Did you drop a stack of dimes on that thumb you repaired? Those are some pretty welds.

I also wish I had that magnetic drill press....plus all your other tools...all very impressive and thanks for sharing.

on a side note about wishing for stuff: My dad always told me I could wish in one hand and sh!t in the other.

 

[TOM V]

A few recent pics.

 

[UK pie-can]

Greetings from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. :cool2

TOM V....Looking good, the standard of workmanship is impressive.

Two questions about the Line Boring & Bore Welding:

(i) After Bore Welding, how much weld is removed in terms of depth of cut....I take it you are doing a rough cut & then a finish cut?

(ii) Using a Stick/Bucket pin & bearings on a 320C as an example, if it's greased at the correct interval how long (in service hours) would you expect it to last before it needs doing again?

Have fun....& if you can't be good....be careful.

 

[billyboy890]

well we actually started this on saturday but because of the rain we had to put it off till today,the track adjuster is shot as the track came off on thursday and after puting it back on we tracked the machine to our make shift work shop where we tried to seperate the track but the pin wouldn't move so we spent most of today heating up the track and trying to sledge the pin out so after lunch l said 'to hell with it lets choose another pin' which we did and and the dammed thing just sailed out and after removing the idler all we got to do now is remove the adjuster and fit the new one then put it all back together.
more pics of the reassembly tomorrow

 

[TOM V]

Greetings from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. :cool2

TOM V....Looking good, the standard of workmanship is impressive.

Two questions about the Line Boring & Bore Welding:

(i) After Bore Welding, how much weld is removed in terms of depth of cut....I take it you are doing a rough cut & then a finish cut?

(ii) Using a Stick/Bucket pin & bearings on a 320C as an example, if it's greased at the correct interval how long (in service hours) would you expect it to last before it needs doing again?

Have fun....& if you can't be good....be careful.

It depends how much weld was put down, on average .150" machined out in multiple cuts. The hours are all over the place, seen machines have to be line bored at 4000 hours and seen them go to 10000 hours without boring, Just have to watch pin and bushing wear and replace as needed before its to late.

 

[TOM V]

A small job from yesterday.

 

[UK pie-can]

It depends how much weld was put down, on average .150" machined out in multiple cuts. The hours are all over the place, seen machines have to be line bored at 4000 hours and seen them go to 10000 hours without boring, Just have to watch pin and bushing wear and replace as needed before its to late.

Thanks for the return Tom....soldier on & be safe.

well we actually started this on saturday but because of the rain we had to put it off till today,the track adjuster is shot as the track came off on thursday and after puting it back on we tracked the machine to our make shift work shop where we tried to seperate the track but the pin wouldn't move so we spent most of today heating up the track and trying to sledge the pin out so after lunch l said 'to hell with it lets choose another pin' which we did and and the dammed thing just sailed out and after removing the idler all we got to do now is remove the adjuster and fit the new one then put it all back together.
more pics of the reassembly tomorrow

When Mr Murphy visits carrying a box full of Cosmic Laws you know it's going to be a bad day.

As for the persistent rain....thank the machine driver for his contribution to Global Warming.

Will today's pictures include the English equivalent of Tom's service truck....I'm thinking custom modified Scania with a super heavy duty Palfinger.

Keep ya' pecker up.

 

[billyboy890]

sorry for the late reply but got a fever and had to have a couple of days off so back to the track adjuster,the lads took it off while l was off and when l looked at it l thought oh dear (well actually lots of swear words) the replacement sent from the uk is for a smaller machine so its on the phone to our parts guy in the uk and guess what he checked with the company in germany who deals in these machines and guess what they are obsolete and there are no seals available any more so its back to thinking what the hell do we do now so my pal in the uk says try your hydraulic man over here so l say ok take it to him and he says yep no problem be ready monday so we now have to wait till monday to see if it works
oops the new one is a bit small

do you think the seal is usable

 

[TOM V]

Looks like an AKERMAN track adjuster cylinder in the post above, just resealed one a couple months ago, not obsolete at all, I purchased seals from the Volvo dealer in the US. In Sweden there is Almeboda if volvo can't supply AKERMAN parts.

 

[TOM V]

A few from this afternoon, a 325C with a final drive issue.

 

[TOM V]

A few more shots.

 

[billyboy890]

hi Tom,yep its an akerman H14,thanks for the advice l will pass it on to our parts guy in the uk because the volvo dealers hardly carry any parts over here

 

[theironoracle]

tom, great work, i wish i could have spent the last 17 years learning from someone like you! i have had very few (maybe 3) people cross my path (only a day at a time) with your talent and tools (none with all of those tools) anyway i went through your thread again and wonder how many of these tools you keep with you 100% of the time, i.e. rams, line bore equipment, jack stands, hydraulic torque wrenches, dry ice machine, you would have to have, oxy, acet, co2, 75/25 all of these bottles, adapters and rods for rams, where does it stop or do you just pack it all, absolutely amazing..thanks for the thread it is improving the industry for sure..................theironoracle

 

[Per Eriksson]

http://www.almeboda-maskinservice.se/
Huge inventory of both new and used parts for the Akerman and Volvo machines.

If they can't find a part for Akerman it doesn't exist.......

 

[billyboy890]

thanks again about almeboda,l'am not that good on computers is there any way to get it in english-cheers Billy

 

[UK pie-can]

thanks again about almeboda,l'am not that good on computers is there any way to get it in english-cheers Billy

I have opened the above link in *Google Translate* it doesn't look as if there has been too much effort put into the webshop....you could hit the *Kontakt* button & send them an email with your Model/Serial Number?

 

[Per Eriksson]

No english website, they are an old fashioned outfit that like to talk to their customers, not a bad thing, they also give great advice on repairs and such too.

 

[TOM V]

tom, great work, i wish i could have spent the last 17 years learning from someone like you! i have had very few (maybe 3) people cross my path (only a day at a time) with your talent and tools (none with all of those tools) anyway i went through your thread again and wonder how many of these tools you keep with you 100% of the time, i.e. rams, line bore equipment, jack stands, hydraulic torque wrenches, dry ice machine, you would have to have, oxy, acet, co2, 75/25 all of these bottles, adapters and rods for rams, where does it stop or do you just pack it all, absolutely amazing..thanks for the thread it is improving the industry for sure..................theironoracle

Thanks, I just try to do the best I can to get the customers machinery back in shape with as little down time as possible. As far as the tools and equipment go, it's all on the truck except the line boring equipment and my track torch.