[AT] Pitman rivets?

[Almost-Running Deere]

Hey sometimes those field repairs with a nails are inevitable.  I spent 
about 3 years trying to track down tractors owned by my dad,  of the four 
three were cold trails but one I unravled was a Super C.  About 1968 I was 
raking hay and the pin which holds the steering universal joint broke and I 
replaced it in the field with a 16 penny nail.   I remember this quite 
clearly since it was on a hillside and was a major brown pants moment.   
When I found the tractor  it was rusted, modified and otherwise abused but 
the nail in the shaft was still there as well as a radiator repair from a 
tree branch sometime around 1970,  These were identifying featues, since 
some butthole had removed the serial number plate.  I am slowly restoring it 
but I intend to leave the nail.

Dana

SE PA


>From: Mike Sloane <msloane at att.net>
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>To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>Subject: Re: [AT] Pitman rivets?
>Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 17:32:57 -0400
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>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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