Posted by Bob on May 08, 2013 at 00:14:58 from (64.255.159.192):
In the early 70's, I had just become a teenager.
My uncles bought a 14 foot DEERE LLA grain drill with a broken press wheel shaft and repaired it with a new shaft to make a double hookup with another LLA we already had.
That's how things went around here... there wasn't much new equipment bought and lots of "fixer-upper stuff" 'cuz it seemed money was always tight and we did repair work for others, anyway.
ANYHOW, fast-forward ahead 40+ years... today a nearby BTO stopped by 'cuz he knows I have a lathe and can whip up some simple machined stuff on short notice.
He needed two steel sleeves, 1.5" OD, 1.25" ID, 2" wide for a piece of potato loading equipment ASAP.
(Something to do with a changeover on the tightening system on a conveyor that didn't come with all the parts and they had trucks to load NOW.)
ANYHOW, I didn't have any 1.5" shafting in the odds-and-ends steel rack, so I went outside and looked at a pile of hoarded broken parts behind a shed and fund the long-saved broken press wheel shaft and was able to section out a couple of unworn pieces and make him his sleeves without delay. A little sandblasting and the steel looked like new.
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