[AT] JD Distributor vs. Magneto - NOW: Let the Resurrection Begin!

[Brice Adams]

OOPS,
The bubbles are hydrogen so have good ventilation.  I've not had a shaft
fall out yet but most have come out by dropping the assembly on the shaft.
Hope this helps,
Brice

On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 8:23 PM Brice Adams <brice.adams at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm a big fan of the electrolytic solution.  I've had good luck getting
> shafts out of castings by using baling wire as the anode and  wrapping it
> tightly around the casting over 3M Scotch-Brite pads as insulation.
> Attach the negative lead of a battery charger to the shaft and the
> positive to the baling wire. Suspend it from the shaft in a 5 gal bucket of
> washing soda solution and see what happens.
> The bubbles are hydrog
>
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 6:25 PM Spencer Yost <spencer at rdfarms.com> wrote:
>
>> Smells better. (-:
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Mar 18, 2020, at 5:40 PM, Stephen Offiler <soffiler at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 
>> Something special about apple cider vinegar, Cecil?  Good old white
>> vinegar is a LOT cheaper.
>>
>> SO
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 5:14 PM Cecil Bearden <crbearden at copper.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Apple Cider Vinegar makes a good rust remover also.  It will free up
>>> bolts.  They get real clean when you remove them.  Usually look black like
>>> they were blued..
>>> Cecil
>>> On 3/18/2020 3:51 AM, Indiana Robinson wrote:
>>>
>>> Years ago when I got my 1948 John Deere A both brakes were stuck tight
>>> and the guy I got it from had pulled the brakes out so he could tow it from
>>> out in the woods where it had sat for about 15 years up to his tool shed.
>>> He had bought that farm and the  JD A and an IH M were sitting in the
>>> woods. The original owner had retired and later died.
>>> I was not having any luck with heat and lube so I suspended them down in
>>> a plastic barrel full of water and baking soda, dropped in an anode bar and
>>> connected a battery charger to the anode and to the wire suspending the
>>> brake units. I don't recall polarity right now but you can Google it. I
>>> think I left them in a couple of days and it worked perfectly except it did
>>> remove most of the paint too. I lubed the splash holes for the shafts and
>>> the pedal shafts and the brakes worked fine. I highly recommend it.
>>>
>>>
>>> .
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> --
>>>
>>> Francis Robinson
>>> aka "farmer"
>>> Central Indiana USA
>>> robinson46176 at gmail.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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