[AT] Ford 3000 SOS input TLC and shaft

[Cecil R Bearden]

Don: Search for Home Shop Machinist magazine and then look for 
subscribers in your area.  Usually these guys have a fair sized machine 
shop in their garage.   Or look for a machinist hobby group on yahoo or 
whatever.   There are a lot of hobby machinist groups around, you just 
have to find them.

Cecil in OKla


On 8/2/2012 6:51 AM, Don Bowen wrote:
> On 8/1/2012 8:26 PM, charlie hill wrote:
>> Don,  why not turn down the input shaft and thread it for a grade 8 nut that
>> fits a 7/8 socket.  Screw one or maybe two onto the shaft, bevel the joint
>> between the nut and the shaft shoulder
>> out and weld the nut(s) in place.  That should be a lot faster, easier and
>> more accurate than setting the shaft up in a mill and having to make 6
>> different set ups to machine it.
> That would be a good idea if I had a handy machine shop.  I am looking
> around for a machine shop to ask about it.  So far two in the phone book
> have gone out of business and a third seems to have moved.  I do have a
> line on a guy that I will be meeting Friday.
>