What ya working on?

[midnightman]

Would ha been better 2 weeks ago, but was looking after other things 

[yellowrosefarm]

9 hours ago, midnightman said:

Would ha been better 2 weeks ago, but was looking after other things 

That's really interesting. I've never seen angle iron used for a foundation before.

[B.B.]

10 hours ago, 560Dennis said:

Well this may be edification and amusement for you .

The bearing has failed on this antique sentry sabre saw. 
Well ,I can’t get the bearing off the up down arbor without removing the the Torrington b23 needle bearing. The bearing is in a blind hole. The bearing locks slide block to the up down shaft. What a revolting design this is .
 

I just replaced and threw away a perfectly good (minus a couple bad bearings) ceiling fan because the inner bearing would of been nearly impossible to replace.    Just wasn't worth messing with.    

 

That saw looks to me in about the same spot.   Sabre saws just don't cost that much anymore

[560Dennis]

10 hours ago, midnightman said:

Got the wall tied into my existing shop for a lean to. It’s going to end up pretty low slope, but I needed to have 10’ clearance inside.  There will be plenty of steel in it to carry the snow load.  Realized that putting steel up by myself doesn’t quite seem as fun as it was 25 years ago.

Is that a killer welder? Boy like to here that baby go ?

[560Dennis]

7 minutes ago, B.B. said:

I just replaced and threw away a perfectly good (minus a couple bad bearings) ceiling fan because the inner bearing would of been nearly impossible to replace.    Just wasn't worth messing with.    

 

That saw looks to me in about the same spot.   Sabre saws just don't cost that much anymore

Just brings tear to my eyes 👀 I can’t fix it . I can’t accept defeat !

 

[B.B.]

34 minutes ago, 560Dennis said:

Just brings tear to my eyes 👀 I can’t fix it . I can’t accept defeat !

 

I know that feeling.  On the other hand hard to be mad at a tool that served you well for years.    

[DT Fan]

This old cherry picker. Was going to make it into a 3-point mounted affair but decided not worth the effort. So, took pictures and going to list it for sale. Really wish I'd never seen the stupid thing. Bet my uncle who thought I just had to have it wishes that too. He wound up with like 6 cracked/broken ribs out of getting it loaded on the trailer.

[yellowrosefarm]

21 minutes ago, DT Fan said:

This old cherry picker. Was going to make it into a 3-point mounted affair but decided not worth the effort. So, took pictures and going to list it for sale. Really wish I'd never seen the stupid thing. Bet my uncle who thought I just had to have it wishes that too. He wound up with like 6 cracked/broken ribs out of getting it loaded on the trailer.

 

21 minutes ago, DT Fan said:

This old cherry picker. Was going to make it into a 3-point mounted affair but decided not worth the effort. So, took pictures and going to list it for sale. Really wish I'd never seen the stupid thing. Bet my uncle who thought I just had to have it wishes that too. He wound up with like 6 cracked/broken ribs out of getting it loaded on the trailer.

 

I bought a similar one 25 years ago after seeing it on the side of the road for sale. Shop built out of heavy wall round tubing, with a screw jack instead of hydraulic. He loaded it on the trailer with a tractor and I off loaded it the same way. Years went by and I never used it, so I loaded it back on the trailer and took it to a July 4th community yard sale. Guy comes up to me and says he wants to buy it. I tell him "great, but you will have to get it off my trailer and onto your truck."  He says " no problem, Bubba will handle it". Just then, one of the biggest men I've ever seen in person walked around the corner. Close to 7' tall, maybe 400lbs, very little fat. . They backed their truck to the end of my trailer and Bubba picked up one end of the lift and drug it up on the truck.  I looked at the guy and said "I'm glad he's friendly"  Big dude cracked up over that.

[560Dennis]

16 hours ago, 560Dennis said:

Well this may be edification and amusement for you .

The bearing has failed on this antique sentry sabre saw. 
Well ,I can’t get the bearing off the up down arbor without removing the the Torrington b23 needle bearing. The bearing is in a blind hole. The bearing locks slide block to the up down shaft. What a revolting design this is .
 

I got it out with a 3/16 punch,ball peen hammer , a vise and a small piece of Italian bread. The axle grease didn’t work ,to viscous. Attached photos . 
I m a hard headed Dutchman ,didn’t  give up , used the of bread to get the pilot bearing in the crank of the Farmall C,s ,why it took so long to remember this is something. But it’s out ,save the needle bearing .

[Binderoid]

On 12/2/2025 at 7:51 PM, hillman said:

this was a number of years ago but I just came across the pictures.  My cousin gave me a rotted out flail chopper. I made a new blower housing and had an auger housing rolled. Made me think of the crazy snowblower thread. This would not be feasible to hire it rebuilt but it was very satisfying to bring it back with the cost of materials only

Can you explain how the deflector control works? Mine came without a mast and no spout screw... that must have  been optional.  

Im tired of holding  the rope  the whole  time!

[Binderoid]

On 12/2/2025 at 7:51 PM, hillman said:

this was a number of years ago but I just came across the pictures.  My cousin gave me a rotted out flail chopper. I made a new blower housing and had an auger housing rolled. Made me think of the crazy snowblower thread. This would not be feasible to hire it rebuilt but it was very satisfying to bring it back 

[hillman]

2 hours ago, Binderoid said:

Can you explain how the deflector control works? Mine came without a mast and no spout screw... that must have  been optional.  

Im tired of holding  the rope  the whole  time!

there's a spring on the deflector to pull it open. clothes line cable up to it with a short length of chain on the lower end. There's a hole with slots the chain fits into. Move the chain into the larger round hole and pull the cable until its where you want it and slip the chain into the slot. Yours may be different because mine is an early one and the swivel deal is a pipe you pull. Does this help?

[midnightman]

13 hours ago, yellowrosefarm said:

That's really interesting. I've never seen angle iron used for a foundation before.

Angle is welded to pipe piles 10’ in the ground. Will become the concrete form to pour the floor which will end up flush with the top.

[midnightman]

12 hours ago, 560Dennis said:

Is that a killer welder? Boy like to here that baby go ?

There’s bigger ones, but it has no issues with anything that I’ve put it through. Miller 302P with Perkins diesel.

[Oldironbestiron]

Getting this old turd back to the land of the living 

[B.B.]

Italian bread ehh???   Will plain ole Walmart white bread work??

I'm glad to see that trick actually works 

[Alan Dinan]

9 hours ago, 560Dennis said:

I got it out with a 3/16 punch,ball peen hammer , a vise and a small piece of Italian bread. The axle grease didn’t work ,to viscous. Attached photos . 
I m a hard headed Dutchman ,didn’t  give up , used the of bread to get the pilot bearing in the crank of the Farmall C,s ,why it took so long to remember this is something. But it’s out ,save the needle bearing .

Never heard of this bread trick! Can you please explain?

[JaredT]

7 hours ago, Alan Dinan said:

Never heard of this bread trick! Can you please explain?

X2

[iowaboy1965]

8 hours ago, Alan Dinan said:

Never heard of this bread trick! Can you please explain?

Similar to filling the void with grease and using a punch to create a piston hydraulic effect to force the bearing up? My guess anyway. 🤷‍♂️

[560Dennis]

8 hours ago, Alan Dinan said:

Never heard of this bread trick! Can you please explain?

Try to !

The recipe is this for removing a bearing (bushing ) (sleeve)from a blind hole. ( blind hole 🕳️ is not a thru hole )with bread in this case. 

The bread ( is the hydraulic media)( I used Italian bread ,what I had in the frig) is placed ( filling)inside the bearing bore.A driver (hydraulic cylinder) (drift punch in my project)of the same size as the bearing bore is used to apply the hydraulic force to ( bread media )the bearing to force( hydraulic )the bearing out of the bore along the path of least resistance . After each impact with driver ,I recharged the bore with more bread. And hit the punch lifting the bearing close to surface . Repeating till bearing was out of the bore completely.

In this case I used a medium ball peen hammer to drive out the bearing using bread . 
you can use other force drivers you have,like arbor presses for example. 

other media 

grease , did not work in ths needle bearing ,ooze out along the needle and punch .

i have not tried play dough. Cause it will not wash out of the bearing like bread making it reusable bearing. 

I did use mapp gas torch to heat up the part housing. Help to expand the housing. Probably why grease did not work,also. May not be necessary.

I will tried it cold to get the clutch pilot bushing out of the Farmall C . 

How do I do explaining ?

I know I read this method somewhere ,in a manual ,where I can’t remember. 
I seen done in maintenance , machine shops, for example. 

[560Dennis]

2 hours ago, JaredT said:

X2

Replied to above!

[Alan Dinan]

That makes sense.

[lorenzo]

Finished the restoration on my siren. 

[yellowrosefarm]

21 hours ago, Alan Dinan said:

Never heard of this bread trick! Can you please explain?

I've used wet toilet paper for the same thing. In a blind hole you pack whatever in there and drive it down with a shaft as close to the diameter of the hole as you can slide in. Then, as you pound the shaft down, the material flows under the bearing and pushes it up. Hope that makes sense. Throw out bearings in a flywheel is one place I've used it. One time I resorted to this when my legit blind hole bearing puller wouldn't pull a race out, and it worked. Whatever wet material you pick is just holder to let you use the uncompressible water as a hydraulic driver.

[mike newman]

6 hours ago, yellowrosefarm said:

I've used wet toilet paper for the same thing. In a blind hole you pack whatever in there and drive it down with a shaft as close to the diameter of the hole as you can slide in. Then, as you pound the shaft down, the material flows under the bearing and pushes it up. Hope that makes sense. Throw out bearings in a flywheel is one place I've used it. One time I resorted to this when my legit blind hole bearing puller wouldn't pull a race out, and it worked. Whatever wet material you pick is just holder to let you use the uncompressible water as a hydraulic driver.

yrf....does this endeavor presuppose that th e   bearing 'cup'' is reusable....???

,,,back in the daze of welding  at  the Caterpillar  dealer....we just used to run a weld around the inside  (obviously...)  of the bearing shell......this made the shell shrink...and it would come out very easily...

It required a very average weld.....but very careful weld  placement , as,  for example, for a spigot bearing removal.....

Mike