[AT] 39 Farmall A crankshaft question

[charliehill]

Yeah hopefully he will work with you.  I don't know about in Onslow but in 
Craven Co the community college has a machinist program and since it's a 
high school class project they'd probably do the work for you and let the 
class come and watch.

Charlie


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Al Jones" <farmallsupera at earthlink.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2010 9:41 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] 39 Farmall A crankshaft question


>I had thought about it.  Problem is the shop is small (Southern Autoparts 
>in Jacksonville) and there's 25 in the class.  I still think I will take a 
>look at the possibilities.  The machinist there seems like an outgoing sort 
>of fellow that wouldn't mind showing students what to do.
>
> Al
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>>From: charliehill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
>>Sent: Feb 27, 2010 9:04 AM
>>To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>>Subject: Re: [AT] 39 Farmall A crankshaft question
>>
>>Al, having it done at the local machine shop sounds like a good field trip
>>for your class.  You might have an aspiring machinist in your bunch that
>>doesn't know it yet.
>>
>>Charlie
>>----- Original Message ----- 
>>From: "Al Jones" <farmallsupera at earthlink.net>
>>To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
>><at at lists.antique-tractor.com>;
>><farmall at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>>Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2010 8:54 AM
>>Subject: [AT] 39 Farmall A crankshaft question
>>
>>
>>> My students got the oil pan off the 39 A this week, and the splitting
>>> stand I built for them bolted on, so if they are successful with their
>>> other projects this week, they can start preparing to pull the engine 
>>> the
>>> rest of the way apart.
>>>
>>> After school I took a look.  You can wiggle the connecting rods on the
>>> crankshaft ever so slightly.  The worst one felt like about 1/16" of 
>>> play
>>> side to side.  I know there's no way to tell for sure until they
>>> plastigauge it and mic the journals, but I am anticipating best case
>>> scenario a crankshaft grind and worst case, weld/grind the crank back 
>>> down
>>> or find another crank already turned, or have it turned.
>>>
>>> Anybody got a good source for reground A/B/C crankshafts?  I thought I'd
>>> do some checking here just to get an idea of where to look.  Local 
>>> machine
>>> shop is good at this kind of stuff, and is reasonable, but I'd like to 
>>> go
>>> in knowing my options.....
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>> Al
>>>
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