[AT] Cub Part Identification Question

[Jim Becker]

Could it be the remains of a tool box base or the bracket the tool box 
attached to?  Could it be rusted remains of the battery box base? 
Otherwise, doesn’t sound familiar.  Got a picture?

Jim Becker

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From: szabelski at wildblue.net
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2020 3:20 PM
To: Antique Group
Subject: [AT] Cub Part Identification Question

Been working on the Cub for the last 11 - 12 weeks and should have it done 
in a couple more. When I was taking the tractor apart there were two thin 
metal strips that were bolted to the axle extension next to the battery box. 
Both were pretty rusted away and only one of them had a single hole that was 
still there. I never noticed them before in all the years that I’ve had the 
Cub, they pretty much blended in with all the rust. The two most rear bolts 
in the axle extension were pretty rusted away and I had to use bolt 
extractors to get them out of the axle extension.

The strips are about 1-1/2 inches wide and about 4 - 5 inches long. Both 
were bolted between one of the floor pan bolts and one of the other bolts 
that threads into the axle extension (the floor pan bolts secure the floor 
pan to the axle extension). Essentially they were bolted between the four 
bolts that thread into the axle extension. I see no purpose for them and don’t 
plan on making replacements.

I doubt very much if they are/were for attaching any implement since they 
are so thin. I thought maybe they were for grounding purposes, but that 
doesn’t make sense since the four bolts all thread into the axle extension, 
and the grounding of the tractor is from the battery box the the back of the 
transmission.

Anybody have any idea what they’re for?

Carl