Got half of PS Pump bracket made

David G · Dec 26, 2015

This is the front bracket for the PS pump on my MH44

If we went by the $50 rate, this is about $500, but I am getting better at using the mill and welding.

I will work on the back bracket tomorrow.

TimV · Dec 26, 2015

Boy, I know what you mean about the time factor, but I use my little Harbor Freight tabletop milling machine SO much for projects like that. Working with old, oddball, obsolete equipment, you don't just step into the parts store and pick something off the shelf, and even a small, manual mill just makes jobs like that go much better. Looking good, and hope it works when you get it all done!

IA Roy · Dec 26, 2015

You need to take the hourly rate away from the education cost and you probably came out even. Next project will be more efficient time wise and your cost will go down with every project.

David G · Dec 26, 2015

I did a stupid thing first, I had the slots going sideways, so they tightened the belt very little with movement, the slots are parallel with the belt now.

massey333 · Dec 27, 2015

No offence David,but what kind of pump are you mounting to need all that steel?We have both Saginaw and Eaton pumps on 44s and if you didn't look real close,you would never see the mountings(brackets).Only About a tenth the size and steel.

David G · Dec 27, 2015

It is a saginaw, that is the steel I had in stock.

Can you send a picture of your brackets?

Andy Martin · Dec 27, 2015

Looks good. The other item about your rate calculation is time you would have spent anyway. I broke the cast pulley on my NH trail behind mower and decided to make one on my recently acquired lathe. Took me four hours. Thought how much longer it took than I thought it would. Then I realized if I'd gone to Tulsa to get one, it would have taken me three hours to drive there, wait, pay $65 and drive back, if they had one in stock. I felt a lot better that I would have spent the same time and might have not been able to mow that afternoon anyway.

Stay after it!

David G · Dec 27, 2015

I could use a semester in Jim Nicholson's class on machining.

My grandfather was a machinist for Hart Par and JD, my dad learned from him, and I from my dad, so third hand for me. I am refining it by trial and error, but would like to know the science of speeds and tools to help me understand why I am doing it that way. They are both gone now, so cannot ask any questions. I have my dad's lathe, and bought a mill a few years back. I have a good arc welder, but would like to get a wire welder next year to help on the thinner metals. I have some throttle rods that I will take to the welding shop tomorrow to get built up with wire welder.

I am hoping to get the MH44 back together while I have break this week.

My next challenge on the MH44 is to make an insert for paper element that fits in the oil bath without making any modifications to the unit.

massey333 · Dec 27, 2015

No not really without taking the hoods(&pumps off to see anything).They are really just a steel plate with a couple angle plates(all one piece 1/4" plate) that replace the org. gen.bracket and holds the gen.and PS pump as one unit with adj.for each.Would all fit in a 8x8x8 box and maybe 2-3 pound or less.Dad built 4 or 5 of them in 55 or 56 and if you didn't see the PS pump,you wouldn't even know they weren't factory original brackets.You can take either the pump or gen.off without disturbing the other.

Got half of PS Pump bracket made

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