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    Brutus 1-Ton roller model 2M

    This little articulated hydraulic-drive riding roller is sitting in the weeds, without an engine. I can get it for nothing, but have lots of other things to work on and am doing searches trying to figure out whether the thing is worth fixing for friends with equipment, or worth fixing to sell...
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    Abrasion Resistent Poly Carbonate Plastic

    I just did a search to find this, and am sorry you got no responses. Yes, the AR-2 (abrasion-resistant two sides) polycarbonate works as a somewhat cheaper replacement for factory glass. Usually 1/2" thick for front and maybe door glass, and 3/8" for some of the less-abused windows. I've...
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    uses for infared thermometer gun?

    Welding pre-heat and inter-pass temps. Sometimes still use the Tempil sticks I still have, but the gun is handier, if not necessarily as accurate. Avoiding excessive head build-up when building up and hardfacing manganese steels is an essential use.
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    What liftgate for a light-duty shop truck?

    Thanks Doug and Phil. Yeah, my step van has the two rear doors, and it would be a bit of effort to fold down the gate just to get access, but I intend to employ the gate as a work surface part of the time. I agree, 1000lbs is plenty of capacity for this vehicle. I'll look at Tommygate.
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    What liftgate for a light-duty shop truck?

    I have an old bread truck, '67 Grumman-Olson on a Ford P350 chassis, that I want to use as a part-time mobile welding and repair truck. I did a search on lift-gates here, but the threads were mostly for different and bigger rigs than this. Who makes a liftgate you like for this sort of light...
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    Towing a Bobcat 630 or 743

    Oops, well, on reading it, the guy did get his machine to where he could tow it, and I suppose that's enough, but the way he did it lets hydraulic oil run out the open holes where the valves went. I could do that, but I understood that if you had, or fabricated, the correct tool(s) that replaces...
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    Towing a Bobcat 630 or 743

    Thanks a million, Hansen!!! I'm printing it off now and will study it. Wonderful!
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    Towing a Bobcat 630 or 743

    I bet this info is here, but I haven't found the right wording for the Search feature . . . I need to haul a 630 up on to and off of a trailer to move it. A 630 is about like a 743 except that it has a Wisconson V-4. Rumor has it there is a special tool that replaces a valve or valves that...
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    Need info on Internat'l dt466 top end work

    I was advised by the machine shop to glue it to the valve cover with some 3M spray-on weatherstrip adhesive, and then to smear a very thin layer of silicone seal on either the rail on the head or on the bottom of the gasket and let it set up before bolting the cover down. So that's how I did it...
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    Need info on Internat'l dt466 top end work

    Wait, wait, one more question!! Got it torqued and valves adjusted. My valve cover gasket is the rubber kind. Do you use any kind of goop to glue it to the valve cover?
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    Need info on Internat'l dt466 top end work

    Yup, it's not my call. Thanks, fellas!
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    Need info on Internat'l dt466 top end work

    Thanks. I generally torque up 'most anything in stages. I wasn't able to read that link on this ancient laptop, but that's okay.
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    Need info on Internat'l dt466 top end work

    Thanks, Modesto; I looked at the build plate, says the truck came off the line Dec. 13, 1988, so I'm supposing the 165 ft/lb figure is still the right one. Thanks again.
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    Need info on Internat'l dt466 top end work

    When I come here, it is usually on behalf of another fella who has talked me into working on some piece of equipment of his. I'm a welder, know how to wrench on cars, small engines, older outboards, etc., but I know from nothin' about diesels. Project is an older ('93, IIRC) International...
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    Bearing and pin metallurgy (Komatsu excavator)

    Thanks, but I had a good dose of reality a couple of days ago. I was feeling a little sorry for myself, for reasons not worth recounting, until I got to talking to a young-middle-aged single mom with whom I have a slight acquaintance. Very nice woman, pleasant and upbeat. But she was telling me...
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    Bearing and pin metallurgy (Komatsu excavator)

    Oh, I'm with you, John. There are some jerks. OTOH, some of the guys with fancy pickups and toys got them during the boom, and really are in tough shape today . . . and of course none of us can get anything much for the stuff we bought during the good times. A chronic problem in doing jobs...
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    Bearing and pin metallurgy (Komatsu excavator)

    Agreed . . . but . . . with some old customers you can develop a level of mutual trust and understanding, and you can say, "Remember that was just an experiment, a temporary fix to hold you 'til we could do it right?", and they'll say, "Oh yeah, I guess it was at that". Of course, then you and...
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    Bearing and pin metallurgy (Komatsu excavator)

    Thanks for the help! Leisure, if you're asking about the 4130 I used for pins, it is heat-treated to through-harden, but not case-harden, so it drills okay. I can get it off the rack at Metal Shorts, a local outfit John will know. John, I don't doubt that the factory bearings are the best...
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    Bearing and pin metallurgy (Komatsu excavator)

    I do miscellaneous repairs, mostly welding, for a small landscaping contractor with a selection of heavy equipment. In this case, his Komatsu excavator with extend-a-hoe (I think it's called) shows a lot of slop in the pivot joints at the end of the crowd arm where the bucket attaches. Yesterday...
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    Very small heavy equipment

    This machine has a platform behind it that you stand on. I'm going to search for that bucket. Found some unusual designs for clay buckets here: www.mcplantspares.com
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