[AT] Pitman rivets?

[Mike Sloane]

Robinson wrote:


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>         No! No! No!... If you want to be authentic as a working mower 
> you should use a mix of hex nuts and bolts and square head nuts and 
> bolts in several sizes. That is in all but 2 holes. Those should have a 
> big old cotter key through the hole like a bolt on one and in the other 
> there should be a huge spike nail just bent over...   ;-)
Every time I bring home a piece of older farm equipment, I end up 
spending a fair amount of time replacing odd size/shaped nuts and bolts 
with correct ones, as well as cutting off bent nails and installing 
cotter pins. Fortunately, I have several 5 gallon pails of new (or 
slightly used) hardware that came from the tractor dealership where I 
used to work  - I placed a 5 gallon pail in a corner of the shop and 
painted "Mike's Nuts" on the side and asked the mechanics to toss in any 
hardware that they would normally discard. I would take it home each 
Saturday and return it empty each Monday, having spent part of Sunday 
going through the contents. Of course, I had to put up with a fair 
amount of kidding and had to be careful things like used razor blades, 
broken glass, stripped bolts, candy wrappers, etc. But I now have what I 
hope is a lifetime supply of nuts and bolts, washers, pins, sleeves, 
cotter pins, hydraulic hose ends, hunks of steel, manifold studs, etc. 
Most of it came from installation kits for tractor accessories, and 
there is one bucket full of larger metric hardware that I presently have 
no use for, but is what all the new tractors are all about. I am going 
to buy one of those bin racks that I saw in the Northern catalog and get 
the stuff out of the buckets on the floor and sorted roughly by size 
into the bins. If anyone wants a 5 gallon pail full of brand new larger 
metric nuts and bolts, they are welcome to stop by my place and take it 
away. (But they have to figure out how to lift it off the ground and 
into their truck - it is very heavy.)

Mike
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>> "farmer"
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> Francis Robinson
> Central Indiana, USA
> robinson at svs.net
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