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Hydra Mac 8A (Gehl 2500) restoration... or "Oh No... What have I done?"
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<blockquote data-quote="vinito" data-source="post: 94834" data-attributes="member: 12954"><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">Yea I think that could be what was heppening. When the line would bend a little sharper, it would start feeding kinda sticky.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">Fabricating isn't my forte so it goes really slow for me. But today I was able to weld on two of the ball ends to the lift arms.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/mikeyphoto/media/Ends.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v110/mikeyphoto/Ends.jpg" alt=" photo Ends.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">I keep messing up my picture order. Before is on the right and after on the left. If it lookes crooked, that's an optical delusion. The ball ends are teardrop shaped so I aligned one side flush to the opposite face and the angled face tilts toward the opposite face, which matched the original ones and it worked out pretty well. My welds still aren't great but they were much better today. It took 3+1 passes and the last one I did wide and flat just to smooth it out. The root passes were 100% penetration so I'm confident it should work fine. Still have to weld the ball ends to the other end of the lift arms. These two got me primed so the next ones ought to go a little faster, though the cutting will be a little more complex so we'll see how that works out.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">True to form, I noticed that one of the lift cylinder mount holes was egged out pretty bad and both of them are beat up more than I like. I'll just remake and replace them both.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">So would it have been easier just to make my own skidsteer from scratch? Every little thing on this machine was beat to death. Sigh.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vinito, post: 94834, member: 12954"] [SIZE=3] Yea I think that could be what was heppening. When the line would bend a little sharper, it would start feeding kinda sticky. Fabricating isn't my forte so it goes really slow for me. But today I was able to weld on two of the ball ends to the lift arms. [URL='http://smg.photobucket.com/user/mikeyphoto/media/Ends.jpg.html'][IMG alt=" photo Ends.jpg"]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v110/mikeyphoto/Ends.jpg[/IMG][/URL] I keep messing up my picture order. Before is on the right and after on the left. If it lookes crooked, that's an optical delusion. The ball ends are teardrop shaped so I aligned one side flush to the opposite face and the angled face tilts toward the opposite face, which matched the original ones and it worked out pretty well. My welds still aren't great but they were much better today. It took 3+1 passes and the last one I did wide and flat just to smooth it out. The root passes were 100% penetration so I'm confident it should work fine. Still have to weld the ball ends to the other end of the lift arms. These two got me primed so the next ones ought to go a little faster, though the cutting will be a little more complex so we'll see how that works out. True to form, I noticed that one of the lift cylinder mount holes was egged out pretty bad and both of them are beat up more than I like. I'll just remake and replace them both. So would it have been easier just to make my own skidsteer from scratch? Every little thing on this machine was beat to death. Sigh.[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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