What ya working on?

[560Dennis]

On 12/10/2025 at 9:30 PM, B.B. said:

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

I'm glad to see that trick actually works 

No ,only Italian bread ,it’s the law !

Forgot to say it was Walmart Italian bread actually. 
 

[New Englander]

2 hours ago, mike newman said:

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

Reminds me of how I accidentally found that trick. I came upon a bearing cap with no room to get a puller under the race so I welded a couple of nuts 180 apart figuring I'd screw a couple of bolts into them and use a puller. I left the cap outside and upside down to cool. When I later went to retrieve it the race had fallen out. 

[560Dennis]

12 hours ago, lorenzo said:

Finished the restoration on my siren. 

pretty nice job ,looks new to me !
 

That go on the 560 ? 
I don’t have one on mine ! 
 

[560Dennis]

9 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.

Someone of questionable ancestry put drove two pilot bushings into the Farmall Super C .New one into the existing fail bushing. 

Pilot bushing puller I rented from AZ would not grip the bushing end surface with the other bushing in there , made me cuss . 

Had to use cope chisel to remove them in this case. 

[New Englander]

I found a crack in my engine mount. It would be hard to detect with the engine installed unless directed to it by a service bulletin or Airworthiness Directive. A borescope is probably the only way I'd have found it with the engine installed.  On further inspection the forward mount pads are out of dimension so I ordered an exchange unit. These mounts are incredibly light, you can hold it up with a pinky. The tubes are 4130 thin wall, just .050, and hold about 550lb of engine and propeller subject to all sorts of stress - thrust, landing, gyroscopic, etc. 

[lorenzo]

18 minutes ago, 560Dennis said:

pretty nice job ,looks new to me !
 

That go on the 560 ? 
I don’t have one on mine ! 
 

This company started making sirens in 1913. This model was used by the California Highway Patrol on their Motorcycles, i found it in Ojai  California , between Ventura  and Filmore along with a set of radios . Its a friction drive that rubs on the rear tire when the officer steps on a pedal. It will go on my current restoration . You would be shocked at how load this  thing is. 

[New Englander]

41 minutes ago, lorenzo said:

This company started making sirens in 1913. This model was used by the California Highway Patrol on their Motorcycles, i found it in Ojai  California , between Ventura  and Filmore along with a set of radios . Its a friction drive that rubs on the rear tire when the officer steps on a pedal. It will go on my current restoration . You would be shocked at how load this  thing is. 

I was wondering how it was driven. Thanks.

[yellowrosefarm]

4 hours ago, mike newman said:

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

I've only ever used this on places too small to do anything else. 

[lorenzo]

4 hours ago, New Englander said:

I was wondering how it was driven. Thanks.

 

[pms1961]

6 hours ago, New Englander said:

I found a crack in my engine mount. It would be hard to detect with the engine installed unless directed to it by a service bulletin or Airworthiness Directive. A borescope is probably the only way I'd have found it with the engine installed.  On further inspection the forward mount pads are out of dimension so I ordered an exchange unit. These mounts are incredibly light, you can hold it up with a pinky. The tubes are 4130 thin wall, just .050, and hold about 550lb of engine and propeller subject to all sorts of stress - thrust, landing, gyroscopic, etc. 

Sounds expensive,kinda like work on tractors..

[MrMarty51]

Made a fire pit.

have a set of 6lug small center wheels from a 93 GMC I once owned. They been around doing nothing for too long, i couldnt even give them away.

 

and so welded another to that one.

 

too much cold and snow to stand out there today. 😹😹😹

[766 Man]

10 hours ago, 560Dennis said:

No ,only Italian bread ,it’s the law !

Forgot to say it was Walmart Italian bread actually. 
 

  A better use for it than eating it.  I have not had a good Italian bread in the last 40 years.  The Star Market grocery chain had the best.  

[New Englander]

17 hours ago, pms1961 said:

Sounds expensive,kinda like work on tractors..

For an airplane part it's really not so. AWI sold me an overhauled exchange for $2700. with a $1000 core charge. Shipping will be a little tough as it'll come freight bolted to a pallet but I'll save a little by picking it up at the terminal. Return shipping not so bad as I can cut the tubes that they arbitrarily replace and send it in a cardboard box.

https://awi-ami.com/

[560Dennis]

15 hours ago, 766 Man said:

  A better use for it than eating it.  I have not had a good Italian bread in the last 40 years.  The Star Market grocery chain had the best.  

Tears ! Your right ,that’s why I also use their  Italian bread for industrial applications. Does a good job of absorption of grease in photo.

[lotsaIHCs]

Got my MCV gaskets and o-rings yesterday. The kit was supposed to have the springs in it too, but didn't. So now emailing back and forth to get that sorted out before I tear into the 1066 MCV. Want to have the parts here before I take it apart just in case I need them.

[DT Fan]

Platform repair on the 756 D. It had two broken bolts and was 'spongy' when getting on/off. It was a struggle but got both out. Two long bolts were rusted in the spacers, 5&1/2", closest I could find were 6". Had to chase the threads down a bit and cut them off. That went better than expected. Put a different horseshoe on the 400, vast improvement! Fixing minor stuff on D-17-3. Good day in the shop yesterday!

[hillman]

On 12/10/2025 at 5:59 PM, hillman said:

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?

Binderoid,  I originally posted the spring pulled it closed which is correct. I took a look at it. I take the chute off for storage 

[pms1961]

5 hours ago, New Englander said:

For an airplane part it's really not so. AWI sold me an overhauled exchange for $2700. with a $1000 core charge. Shipping will be a little tough as it'll come freight bolted to a pallet but I'll save a little by picking it up at the terminal. Return shipping not so bad as I can cut the tubes that they arbitrarily replace and send it in a cardboard box.

https://awi-ami.com/

You sound like my Brother in law who is a retired airline pilot.Man he loves to fly!He has a Piper Cub and a Cessna 170 with the latest avionics.He lives next to the local airport,his hangar is within walking distance of his back porch.It's fun to walk through the hangars as they all sport classic planes and cars.Kinda like high end man caves.He is also a flight instuctor at the airport.

[Mr. Plow]

Workin' on staying inside out of the snow!🤣🤣🤣

[iowaboy1965]

At work and hoping the drive home later won't be too bad 

[MrMarty51]

On 12/12/2025 at 3:42 AM, 560Dennis said:

No ,only Italian bread ,it’s the law !

Forgot to say it was Walmart Italian bread actually. 
 

IDK how true it is, I once read that when Constantine built the Christian churches, the reason they have withstood so many earthquakes is that they used bread in their mix of cement.

The bread supposedly adds flexibility to the concrete. 🤷😹😹😹

There, another use fir Italian bread. 😹😹😹

[MrMarty51]

Going to be working on building a couple if sliced peach pies if the wifey ever gets out of the way with her cookie baking.

day before yesterday I took the bags of peaches out of the freezer. Vicki asks me what I’m going to do with those ?

Going to bake a couple of pies, she then starts talking of baking cookies for Christmas.

Before the peaches got thawed, she has dragged out the pans, kettles, cookie sheets and ingredients to start her cookies projects.

Last evening it was date filled. 🤪

Now its M&M cookies. 🤪

And after she gets those baked it then is molasses cookies. 🤪

Maybe I might get to bake my oies tomorrow. 😹😹😹 

[td9inidaho]

Been rained out for a cple weeks now, no frost in the ground, can't log, just makes a muddy mess. So, one shop project after another. 

[td9inidaho]

After hours of welding, pulling, and grinding, it's coming along nicely. A skim of mud here and there and be ready to paint in a cple days 

[hardtail]

How do you like the stud welder?