What a day!

Spent most of the morning working on the 986. It would not start a few weeks ago in the heat of spring planting so looking at it waited until today. Plenty of not so clean connections but that did not solve the problem. Looks like the starter needs to come out. Not that I was expecting to use it this year but I gave the JD 347 baler a quick look over and found the plunger stuck. A dozen wacks by the sledgehammer on a 6 X 6 on the pitman head then I was able to rock it a couple inches. Spray some JD chain and cable lube on the rail and then some more rocking on the flywheel it was loose and free. My hands sure are sore where ten years ago this kind of day would have been another day at the office.

I sandblasted and used the wire wheel on the die grinder all day today on the 500. I sandblasted on it the day before yesterday too. I'm getting real tired of washing sand out of every orifice. If I run anymore sand down the shower drain I'm afraid I'll have to work on that.
I told Ken that if he didn't have the hood blasted by the time I got done,I'd bring it home and do it myself. I'm going down in the morning to find out. God I hope he's done with it!

I know the feeling. When you think you got all the sand, there is still some sand in your ears. I took a vacuum, and cleaned it out real good. removed the filter, and wrapped a rag around where it was. I guess you can use a new filter also. Now the air coming out the exhaust is fairly clean. Cleaned the flex hose as well. I took a old welding helmet, and attached the hose to the inside of the helmet, and tapped some cloth around the out side Now I am breathing fairly clean air, and most of the grit stays away from my head area. I still wear a mask. stan

Looks kinda like one of them trakters whar the farmer lost his butt, and doan know whitch way ta turn and ainta got a way ta go thar,,,,,,

No doubt you use an air powered die grinder. Seems to me electric die grinders are more efficient. I use my electric one a lot, in fact I need to get a new one, it's become noisy, I think the bearings are going out. I wonder why electric ones aren't more widely used.

(quoted from post at 15:56:03 07/11/17) Spent most of the morning working on the 986. It would not start a few weeks ago in the heat of spring planting so looking at it waited until today. Plenty of not so clean connections but that did not solve the problem. Looks like the starter needs to come out. Not that I was expecting to use it this year but I gave the JD 347 baler a quick look over and found the plunger stuck. A dozen wacks by the sledgehammer on a 6 X 6 on the pitman head then I was able to rock it a couple inches. Spray some JD chain and cable lube on the rail and then some more rocking on the flywheel it was loose and free. My hands sure are sore where ten years ago this kind of day would have been another day at the office.

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I hope that you put a good slug of oil under the plunger.

I'm getting real tired of washing sand out of every orifice.

Your telling me, after working maintenance and mechanic at a sand mine never want to see sand again!

And getting the starter out through the floor isn't as easy as it used to be when the body was more flexible and less sore.

The next time the 4010 is out and about I will spin the baler now that I know everything turns as it should. Then I will apply a generous coating of oil. The thing is the bale chamber gets cleaned out when I know it will sit for a while as I hired the hay round baled the past few years. Must have been enough damp air over that time to build a little rust. Assuming there is money this fall I was going to have a baler guy go through it. It's a wire tie and while I have done some work on that assembly I would not mind having a pro look at it just to have peace of mind if at the spur of the moment somebody wants something baled in wire. I know everybody says the heck with idiot cubes but there is a market for it yet in the area. I wish we had never let the old NH 270 go as I would like the option of small baling with twine. Plenty of round balers out there with guys willing to bale at a cost where it is hard for me to pencil having my own.

I did that a dozen or so years ago and it was not fun then. That tractor has to sit outside a lot unfortunately so I like to start it every two or three weeks in the off season to avoid any problems. Run it and drive around so everything internally gets a fresh coat of oil that is supposed to be exposed to oil.

At some point my Ford 860 will get the same treatment but not for now as money is very tight.

I wear a headsock when sandblasting or painting.

I've got a Craftsman Industrial 1/4" collet die grinder, a Dremel on steroids, I got it 25-30 years ago and have used it sparingly. It still works which surprises me as my history with Craftsman power tools is Not good. If you use an electric die grinder a while it will get so hot you have to wear welding gloves to hold it. Heat kills electric motors, bearings, etc.

About 20 years ago I bought a Chicago Pnuematic 1/4" collet die grinder. I used the Heck out of that thing on cut-off wheels, carbide rotary burrs, abrasive bits, wire brushes. I got a 7-1/2 hp 80 gallon tank 2-stage compressor and I could run that die grinder for 10 minutes before the compressor kicked on. That die grinder sat ready to go anytime I was at my workbench. After 15 years that grinder finally stopped working. I think a vane in the motor broke. I couldn't find anyone local who repaired air tools so ordered a new die grinder, exact same CP model. If I run the grinder more than 3-4 minutes I have to wear gloves because it gets so COLD from the expanding air. I always run the 160-170 psi air from my compressor thru my regulator down to 90-100 psi and my coalescing air filter to remove any moisture or dirt from the air. I give it a few drops of air tool oil every once in a while.

Machine shops, foundries, fabricators all use air tools if possible. Longer life, easily rebuildable. No electric shock hazard, and air tools tolerate the dirty environment much much better. Not much difference in cost between a good electric tool and a comparable air tool, but over years and years of use the air tool costs much less to maintain. Foundry I used to work at had their own air tool repairman on the payroll, he did several other jobs as well.

My Craftsman die grinder pulls 2 amps 110 volts, my compressor pulls 30 amps 220 volts. But to run my air die grinder my compressor runs 3-4 minutes then shuts off for 10 or more minutes. Most times the compressor won't even have to run when I do something. Bet it'S been 18 years since I last used the Craftsman die grinder. That's why it still works!