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Recent content by BB64

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    Circuit Boards

    John, That is a miserable 4PDT relay -- Mouser, Newark and Digi-Key show it as No Longer Available (NLA) and I couldn't find a quick cross, so my unpleasant suggestion would be find something like a RadioShack Experimenter Prototyping Board (276-170) that is DIP (Dual In-line Package) spaced...
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    Circuit Boards

    John, Sorry for the delay - work is a four letter word, plus had to deal with doctor visits for my wife and run to the body shop. Anyway, engineers love acronyms... hope I can manage a passable geek to English translation. SPST = Single Pole Single Throw -- think of this as a standard house...
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    Circuit Boards

    John, Birken Vogt's last link shows a schematic. Pins are numbered sequentially as if they all exist, so one to ten. One is the NC (Normally Closed), Two is one end of the coil, Five and Six are the wiper, Nine is the other end of the coil and Ten is the NO (Normally Open). When you energize...
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    Circuit Boards

    John, FWIW, I'm an over-educated a-hole EE (specialized in analog electronics and power systems) that works in custom batteries and I frequently have to chase down old parts -- we still build some of the same parts we started with in 1986. Glad you have discrete components, especially...
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    Just some work pics

    Hope the contractor got a hefty change order fee if they had to send anyone to lower that flag, to compensate for being dragged through the muck because they are honoring our war dead. Any guesses what the "woke surcharge" will be for any future crane work on that campus? Guessing that the...
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    Carpal tunnel surgery

    Digger, My father-in-law got both done a few months ago and was happy with near instant relief, took it relatively easy for a couple weeks (he blacksmiths for fun, pain had made it impossible). With COVID restrictions, he chose to do both at once rather than two weeks apart and even more nasal...
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    Little truck little motor

    FWIW, my old 87 Bronco II (totaled but still driveable after a rollover in 2001) ate PCV valves something fierce and wouldn't idle for crap when they failed... I remember them getting oily and failing. Since they were fairly cheap and the truck had 230+k on the clock without having been opened...
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    Removing Walking Beams

    Steeldriver, I was blowing time this weekend watching Jay Leno's Garage clips on YouTube and this one popped up... reminded your project, so I figured I'd post the link... -- episode title was "1942 Dodge Power Wagon Restomod". Good Luck!
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    Torque Wrench

    Use Google to find your local metrology lab; I use www.foxvalleymetrology.com (corporate office is just up the road, but they have an office in Fenton, MO) for all sorts of things at work, including tiny preset torque drivers. Good luck!
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    24V Stereo

    Electronics geeks 1.5A 12V output voltage regulator -- the TO-3 case survive up to 2.3 or 3 A with a lot of heatsink. Here's a link (but Radio Shack might still have them, if you still have a shop open near you): http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/L7812CV/497-1452-5-ND/585973 Link also...
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    Caterpillar jumper cable ends

    Ah, something in my field, connectors and batteries... Most electric forklifts, scissorlifts and whatnot use Anderson Power Products SB series of multipole connectors -- color coded & mechanically keyed by voltage. Lots of commercial tow truck / fleet jumpstart harnesses use the SB175. This...
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    5h-2471 cat cement

    The folks at ACMOC were chatting about the glue being discontinued a couple weeks ago -- here's the thread http://www.acmoc.org/bb/showthread.php?17017-Cat-cement-5H2471 Their suggested substitution was http://gasgacinch.com/index.htm Good luck!
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    84 international s1700 dump truck distibuter

    You might have better luck on RedPower, they have separate forums for trucks and engines -- all IH, all the time. http://www.redpowermagazine.com/forums/ Good luck!
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    Is there a specific name for crane forks?

    Google Shopping when searching for "Crane Forks" gets lots of items listed as "pallet lifter" or "overhead load lifter"; common manufacturer of light duty (2000 lb rated) seems to be Vestil. My employer gets some stuff from "global industrial supply" but I'd probably hit Northern Tool's website...
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    Austin-Western Super 300 seal kits

    Dwan Hall did a great refurb/restoration in this thread https://www.heavyequipmentforums.com/showthread.php?2015-Progress-on-the-AW-supper-300 -- use the advanced search function for Dwan Hall and Austin Western and you'll likely find him commenting on other AW threads with sources and...
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