[AT] OT: Rosebuds! The oxi-acetylene kind...

[Tom]

One would have to wonder how hard the gears & shafts were after that experience!

Tom





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> From: Mike <meulenms at gmx.com>
>To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com> 
>Sent: Friday, 15 November 2013 12:05 PM
>Subject: Re: [AT] OT: Rosebuds! The oxi-acetylene  kind...
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>Interesting that you would bring that up Charlie, I was watching RFD-TV 
>the other night and they were interviewing a guy that had restored Power 
>Horse tractors. Parts are apparently very hard to get for those 
>tractors, you either need to make them or have a parts tractor. Anyway, 
>he said when he got it the transmission gears were seized up, so he 
>filled the transmission with charcoal briquets and let it burn, same 
>type of idea. Those are neat little tractors by the way, made to be 
>controlled just like a horse using reins to control the tractor via two 
>levers.
>Mike M
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>On 11/14/2013 7:22 AM, charlie hill wrote:
>> Dave if the part is such that you can do it without messing something else
>> up
>> you might find you have better success, and cheaper, by just building a big
>> fire and throwing the part in the bed of coals for a while.
>>
>> Charlie
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dave Johnson
>> Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 12:31 AM
>> To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
>> Subject: [AT] OT: Rosebuds! The oxi-acetylene kind...
>>
>> I'm pretty ok with cutting & brazing, but have never used a rosebud to heat
>> something, and my experience today has me scratching my head.
>> The project at hand is freeing up a cast iron wheel hub, stuck on a keyed 1"
>> shaft. This is on an old Gilson / MW garden tractor transmission.... the
>> idea is to liberate a set of 4 of these hubs to make dual adapters for use
>> on another tractor with a FEL.
>>
>> I have soaked it for quite some time and have a puller tensioned on it, but
>> it's not moving.... so now it's time for a little heat.
>>
>> I bought a new victor 8-MFA rosebud and lit it off as I would the torch, but
>> when I try to get a blue flame, it flames out with a pop!
>>
>> What's going on here? Do I not want a hot blue flame, or do I simply need to
>> feed a lot more of both gases to the torch? Or??  Any insight into these
>> things would be appreciated!
>>
>>     btw, I'm on digest, so it'll take a day for me to respond (:<((
>>
>>
>> Dave in Gilroy, CA
>> webguydave at yahoo.com
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