[AT] Tractor day

[George Willer]

Bear,

You'd be right at home in my shop.  None of the tools on the machine shop
side are home built, but most of the tooling is.  On the woodworking side is
a HB thickness planer, HB 20" band saw, HB belt sander, HB central vacuum
system, along with all the machines that were modified from the way they
came from the factories.  I can't think of any that are working as God and
manufacturer intended.  The latest change was to add an electric pump to the
hydraulics on the shop crane.

I nearly forgot about the HB blasting cabinet, HB  precision tool grinders,
HB polishers, HB hydraulic press, and the HB 2 axis power feeds on the
Bridgeport.

George Willer

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Billy Hood" <aggie1967 at msn.com>
To: "at" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 11:26 PM
Subject: [AT] Tractor day


My son and I had rebuilt the engine on the '39 H that we are building for my
grandson, but needed to do the rear axles and brakes.  I had all of the
seals and since Brad had the day off and the boy was out for spring break,
we worked on the axles today.  This tractor had sat in a barn for 22 years
and was gunky, breaks stuck on one side and seals leaked.

We broke the housings off, pulled the break drums and started cleaning
parts.  Trent at 8 can scrape off grease and wash parts--he loves to get
dirty and his grandmother can throw the clothes he had on today away.  We
got it all down and washed and the break linings are fine to replace as well
as the bearings.  This tractor does not show much wear even on drawbar hole.
I really enjoyed the day with son and grandson, but got to thinking about
the day as I came into the house tonight.

I like to turn wrenches and make old iron come back to life, but part of the
fun was that I was using many of the tools that I had to fabricate in order
to do the work.  I used a home built(hb) puller to pull the break drums,  hb
bearing press, hb jack stands, hb parts washer for larger parts (half drum
over a drum with pump and oil filter).  Used torch on hb cart, welder on hb
cart and welded nuts on cultivator studs in the axle housing to remove them.
I then set up a 45 gallon electrolysis bath the clean up the splined ends of
the axles where they have set in the Texas weather these 64 or so years.  I
have a hb polishing lathe that I chucked some parts in and cleaned up.
There is a lot of satisfaction in working on our toys, but sometimes the
toys are the tools we use and have fabricated.

Thanks for letting me share my day
Bear

Now I am designing the jib crane for the machine shop with several ideas I
got from my friends here.
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