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Dang, its too bad were so far apart, I have two JD garden tractors (a 112 and a 140) scheduled to be hauled to a metal recycler in the spring That I would gladly rather see them be used/rebuilt by someone such as your young lad

Methinks if what your looking for is that hard to pinpoint it probably is inconsequential and best ignored...a common practice with industrial & heavy trucks....just turn the radio up louder to drown out and carry on.

but a grand for a $20 PM boat winch & a few bits of scrap bolted together???? dont know why it is in bold print???

Avery inexpensive coolant system can be cobbled together using a common fish tank or garden pond submersible pump. the smallest volume you can find will work and even then will have way more pressure than you need but that is easily remedied, Just install a brass needle valve in your piping and...

When i noticed the exactness of the castings & fittings of the Sait PM plated machines to my Taiwanese plated machine the course instructor would not acknowledge or accept that there would be a connection to off-shore manufacture neither ...they paid for good ol' US quality and "by god that's...

You can search vibrations & noise in a mechanical issue with a stethoscope very easily . A very inexpensive "usable in a pinch" stethoscope is simply a thin dowel of wood (in one instance where nothing else was immediately handy i use a surveyors lath to find a slight tick in a 500 hp engine)...

I had one identical to that...and still do :)

Hmmm one thing that surprises me from the photos is that the outboard end of the spindle isnt internally threaded. The spindle in my Taiwanese PM lookalike is threaded and I just matched the threads on a piece of pipe to make my spider, it was the first job I did with my lathe and 20 yrs later...

If I hadnt "upgraded" my 45 yr old compressor just this past summer Id be in the truck right now...a lot bigger than I upgraded too or needed at the time but ...now...with my new plasma cutter the extra volume would be useful.

Wouldnt want to be sitting on that sh!tter when something explodes out of that press as often does at high pressure....could hurt something.