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  1. HandLogger

    Need Some Help...

    The original problem was an inability to connect to the high flow "block" on the left side of the machine, which is clearly shown in Post 26 of this thread. Long story a bit shorter, the FFH10 couplings on the snowblower [attachment] side of the circuit were eventually loosened to relieve...
  2. HandLogger

    Need Some Help...

    In practice, that seems like the same idea as the 3-way valve first suggested in this thread by Tinkerer. I'll look into the various parts one would need for this and do the math. If it proves to be cheaper, I don't see why not. Thanks for the suggestion. :) By the way, I've been employing...
  3. HandLogger

    Just When You Think You've Seen It All...

    As I understand things, there's no one forcing anyone to read or write any of this. If anything is too "political" for the sensitive among us, then don't bother adding to a thread that I started. It is clearly a discussion about the future of our business and, sorry, politics does play into...
  4. HandLogger

    Just When You Think You've Seen It All...

    The old CAT equipment we make a living with uses "burnable" diesel...and none of it is exactly "economical," either, so where are the lines drawn? As I mentioned in my last post, Stellantis (Dodge) is essentially being forced to go electric. This doesn't strike me as being a gradual move, by...
  5. HandLogger

    Just When You Think You've Seen It All...

    My little brother went quite a bit overboard a while back and paid a premium for one of those Dodge (FCA at the time) Challenger Wide Body Redeye Hellcats. Apparently, FCA sold a bunch of these type vehicles and, in fact, Stellantis (the new owner of Dodge) continues to sell these things like...
  6. HandLogger

    Just When You Think You've Seen It All...

    Uncle Sam taught me to be an Electrical Engineer while I wore a uniform for him...and, quite frankly, I don't see how an electrically-powered piece of heavy equipment is going to hold up under our mountainous conditions in the Berkshires. At least when I fill the tank with diesel and turn the...
  7. HandLogger

    Need Some Help...

    Thanks a lot for the suggestion, hosspuller, but all of our plumbing is SAE. If I don't hear back from the Stucchi USA rep that's supposed to be reaching out to us, I'm going to pull the trigger on the high pressure 3-way valve suggested by both Tinkerer and our mechanic (on the very same day). :)
  8. HandLogger

    Just When You Think You've Seen It All...

    ...Somebody comes up with an Electric SSL! Is this what the future looks like?
  9. HandLogger

    Need Some Help...

    TINKERER..... As the sizing chart (below) will indicate, we seem to have 5/8 size flat face couplings on our machine. As our luck would have it, Waite seems to have "skipped over" the 5/8 size flat face couplings. I walked out into the ice and snow with our Mitutoyo digital caliper and...
  10. HandLogger

    Need Some Help...

    Like your DP Plate Series, the Stucchi USA Saturn Series depicted in Post 36 is also designed around flat face residual pressure issues. If manufacturers like CASE are going to employ flat face couplers, which, I have to admit, do make far less mess, they really should've consulted with Stucchi...
  11. HandLogger

    Need Some Help...

    Tinkerer....I checked out the link you so kindly gave me in Post 44 -- thank you. If you activate the link, you'll see that there are three different size Waite Tools available for flat face hydraulic couplings: 3/8, 1/2 & 3/4. As I don't pretend to be any kind of flat face coupling expert --...
  12. HandLogger

    Need Some Help...

    I did all manner of things before borrowing the tools required to crack our lines, Old Iron, including playing with every switch I could think of in the machine. Key on, key off...it just didn't seem to effect the circuit I was working on. Regardless, now that we have the big snowblower...
  13. HandLogger

    Need Some Help...

    You seem to be on the same exact wavelength as I'm on, Tinkerer, because I made contact with a guy who sells these tools via YT. All I would need to go further with this is figure out which tool would work with our plumbing. :rolleyes:
  14. HandLogger

    Need Some Help...

    Before we gathered the tools to crack the lines on the snowblower side of the circuit, I contacted Stucchi USA and spoke to them about a flat face casting/block that has a pressure relief valve built into it. A friend of ours in NY state, with lots of snow-blowing experience, sent me this...
  15. HandLogger

    Need Some Help...

    As shown, just below, this is the coupling "block" that we [finally] have the pressure and return lines coming from our snowblower coupled to... In the next shot (below), you can see the front of the machine in question. If you look to the right side of the cab, adjacent to the door handle...
  16. HandLogger

    Need Some Help...

    I think that I wrote about this before, but we tried numerous methods of pressure relief, including pushing on the Faster couplings depicted in Post 22, but still couldn't get our snowblower hooked up for operation. The major part of the problem was finally solved after we got our hands on the...
  17. HandLogger

    Need Some Help...

    This side has a Faster casting and couplings that have pressure relief designed into them. The other side, however, does not have the same setup...which is why I put a like under Tinkerer's post about the 3-way relief valve. When I finally got a chance to see an old friend of mine of today...
  18. HandLogger

    Need Some Help...

    The new CASE SV340B that we have has more electrical crap in it than I prefer, but we needed a new machine, so we'll have to learn to live with the electronics. The only thing that I've found in the controls that seems to relieve pressure is the trigger switch on the left joy stick. When I...
  19. HandLogger

    Need Some Help...

    As the machine in question is still under warranty, we're trying to learn as much as we can about these flat-face couplers, which are totally new to us, before we proceed... Thanks to the folks who wrote productive posts. :)
  20. HandLogger

    Need Some Help...

    Okay, so perhaps it's time to crack some coupler lines...I'm not sure about how common this is, but every flat-face coupler on the machine and the snowblower seems to require a different size wrench...and probably more than we have. We own a pretty nice set of large crow's feet wrenches. Does...
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