Greg, Don’t sell yourself short, I think you are an excellent Machinist!! Your fabricating skills are truly awesome!! It just takes practice and time!! Thanks again, Vic!!
Thanks for sharing OFW. I was expecting a classic (and satisfying) line boring video but this is a nice twist. Always great to see alternative solutions using a bush. Props to you for calling out 2 real talents in the machinist world as well.
What an incredible repair you accomplished on a disastrously mistreated machine. Your having all the right equipment, the skill and knowledge to to use it all has demonstrated what a true professional can do. Thank you for taking the time to share it with us. This is the one to show her why we had to have that battery powered grease gun. Love my DeWalt.
I love to watch you do lathe work, too, because you do it right. Adam and Kurtis are special and I know they would point out that they do not go out into the field and weld up abused machinery in the sun, rain and stormy weather. You and Isaac are the all-weather heroes and your machining is top notch. Thanks for another excellent video. That stick was really worn out! Nice job. Will be looking forward to seeing that swing bearing replacement!
Greg has no reason to sell himself short or feel inferior to Kurtis or Adam. Kurtis learned his trade in the field in Australia's mining industry, and got to the point he could not deal with the s**t in the field, so he went inside. Adam is a pure machinist, no field experience. Greg and Isaac are what I the grunge warriors.
Very nice! You fixed the damage to the bore and the sides in one operation by machining that bushing! Funny how you mention a man by his first name...Kurtis...and everyone knows who you're talking about, even though he's halfway around the world. I respect you both.
Hey Greg, I just discovered your channel a few days ago and got the impression that your work is like that of a dentist. The worse someone takes care of their machines, the sooner and more intensively you have to restore them. The quality of your work is very impressive.
As always Greg your level of craftsmanship is well above most people’s ability. Another outstanding repair. !!!! Thanks for another great school session
You may not have the tooling and/or experience of a 3rd generation machinist, but you do well enough to Get The Job Done. "Perfection is the enemy of Good Enough". Thanks for the uploads!
He hardly machines anything any longer, he runs a informercial channel with a bit of machining. Imagine Abom out in the hot sun working on a big Cat machine, I'd give him 5 minutes max.
@@lerkzor He was filming at his work at Motion Industries then left the job and this was the beginning of the end in my estimation. Remember the dumb yellow Skyhook, like a mini crane attached to a cart, it was then I knew he was lost lol because he was pretending he had a bad back or something. The acting was so sad lol.
@@jamesdrake2378 Imma have to check your roll there. I don't know how old you are, but I remember being younger, and there was no way that I could have understood what it's like to literally live with body pain. He's not young any more, and he is a bit overweight too. I also suffer from both of those conditions, and let me tell you that I was jealous of his 'stupid little yellow crane thing'. We have no right to think less of him for doing things an easier way. What I miss is the high-quality machining content, rather than yet another video showing off a cool new toy.
@@lerkzor He is obese and not even 50 years old ,part of his content is BBQ videos, One condition you can't control the other you can. Since you asked I'm 65 year old paraplegic from a work accident (heavy construction) at age 60. Nothing worse than able body person not taking care of themselves and wasting the time they have through self neglect. Got that wanker, I'm still working at the bench with my C300 permobil powerwheel chair with the 8 inch rise feature, so I would say I'm uniquely qualified to judge people that don't take care of themselves. F your roll. and ask him for the skyhook.
Another good one. Thanks! Your constantly giving me that push to take the extra time and knock out top quality work within my own business. Sure do appreciate your attention to detail and your knowledge.
Nice repair, Greg. I'm guessing that as long as folks don't maintain their equipment, you'll have plenty of work! Thanks for taking the time and effort to take us along!
I posted this on another machining channel regarding proper maintenance "PROPER MAINTENANCE??? What is this PROPER MAINTENANCE you speak of?? It is is the big bill you get for getting the machine fixed because you are too lazy to keep it properly maintained" 🤣🤣🤣
Did a very similar thing on a scissors lift. Routine maintenance in machine shop tends to be neglected. Lack of lubrication was the first of two problems. 2nd was poor design of anti-rotation for pin going through lower cylinder. Just a flat washer tacked on a 1/4" pin. I used an older Van Norman boring bar. Built a 2 insert bar, supporting the bar on the end away from the machine with a bushing. Left plenty of clearance for chips. Had plenty of room to make insert bushings with a wide shoulder to put a pin through both the cylinder pin & bushing shoulder. This was kinda fun project, and it saved lots of dollars.
Very impressed!! Been watching a lot of your videos. It won’t be long before you have over 100,000 subscribers. It’s probably sometimes a pain in the ass to make videos for TH-cam but all us armchair welders and machinist as well as people just getting into the trade really appreciate your awesome videos. Thanks so much for taking the time to make them!!!!
Chris and Abom have some excellent filming. You're pretty mean with the camera yourself. I definitely appreciate all the effort. Especially when you are in the field.
Curtis in Australia got me into lathe and milling metal, found this channel, and have the best grinding disks and cut off wheels ever because of you, 3M Cubitron. You would not think a simple grinding disk could be a game changer or business changer.
Great job still learning here. How did you find the correct center for you boring bar with it worn so far in one direction. I see the 3 sided alignment tool but don't understand how they would find original center on a hole that oblong? Just curious thanks
It’s hard to explain, but you have to go off of other measurements and known good areas. I have explained this in some of my other videos. Definitely not relying on the centering cones to center the bar.
To you, this is day to day stuff, your job, nothing fancy To me, i absolutely LOVE seeing the process in action. it's so darn satisfying to turn something weird, mishapen and and no where near uniform and make it perfectly round and good.
Greg, your camera work gets better with every episode..... not that it was ever poor.....but the angles and shots you are getting really show the job well....Bravo......PB
I love watching stuff i dont do. Watching how you cut, drill and make stuff work after milling down pure steel blanks of metal is very enjoying to me. Im a Med Diesel and Auto tech.
20:00 I have that same ratchet, a Snap-On 710-B I got in 1972.....and it was used then, got from my college roommate....traded him a military aircraft seatbelt for it.... still cherish it and the memories of where and what it has done ....
Absolutely love your channel and the range of your repair work is spot on, especially your field work, I think you are a very special tradie my friend when you consider you go to jobs that keep other businesses on the road. Really well done
ever since i was a lil boy i was in a machine shop, i knew from a young age i was going to work with my hands in a machine shop. i took every class i could in jr high and high school and then some. before i was 5 my grandfather had me stick welding to see if i would be afraid of the flame and to see if i could take getting splatter burn.,. lol love watching these type of videos. P.S. im old now, but when i step foot in a machine shop and smell it, my childhood comes flooding back, again thank u.
Don't knock yourself down comparing your work to Abomber he used to be a machinist but now is a pitchman, you do great work and with each job you learn a little more. great video of a working man.
I love these videos, when I was a kid my old dad was a farmer and he'd work at machinery that needed repair. We'd take bashed up parts to a local machine shop and bring them home looking like new, I was fascinated by how they could do this and the equipment looked like the work of black magicians. Well, now I know how they did it. 🙂
Curtis has the luxury of not being a mobile welder. He picks jobs that let him do things slowly and carefully and has customers that almost always want it returned to original condition. You, otoh, work in field conditions (ie terrible conditions) and customers that want it done ASAP. Different skillset, different polish. Don't sell yourself short.
It isn't a luxury, he (Kurtis) earnt the workshop in the field and there are some jobs like it or not that should not be done in the field. It is erroneous to make a comparison between workshop and field repairs other than the common error made by many who compare them by saying workshop repairs are proper long term repairs and field repairs are quick fixes to get the machine working asap. Generalisations which are just as inaccurate as other comments here.
I think this was a decent fix. Well done. I would suggest making a much wider face for shims to rude against, as it helps a lot with offset radial loads.
there was the tiniest brass dingleberry in the second bushing in one of the grease holes. Will that affect anything later down the line? or is it so small that it is negligible. thanks for all the content love ur vids so much has been learned
On Fire Welding, Cutting Edge Engineering (Kurtis) and Abom69 are awesome channels. I’m not a machinist but enjoy every second of their vids like it’s my last. Thanks Greg and the other channels.
I posted this on a video that was over a year old so I thought I would put my comment on a more recent video. "I love watching your repairs. I'm learning a lot. (71 years old, welded since I was 15, never professionally so...) I'd like to see some of the equipment work after you fix or modify them."
I’m always curious about how much time it takes to do these things??? You mentioned Kurtis & Abom another fellow is Issac of IC Weld in Texas That press was interesting, that’s not even cheating fair I do appreciate your videos. Thank you Sir
Nice job well done great idea adding grease slot in bushing. Fit seems loose for new OEM parts, I would measure and check dimensions of parts aganist factory specs to make sure you have correct items and a different version was not sent in error for peace of mind otherwise this joint will consume a lot of grease to keep it lubed. Ray
I work at a state of the art tool grinding shop but we also have a building full of the old school machines like yours, you have to. but I'd say your work is very solid. people have to remember that you are ultimately repairing heavy equipment. I was also a mechanic for decades so I'd also be the one to hang the boom back on the machine. there's probably only 2 other guys at work I'd trust to help me do that part. 😉 anyone else can just bring us oil.
Watching all the work you do your saleing yourself short I think your a very good Engineer a great machinist and a brilliant welder the work you do would tack 2 or 3 brits to do on the heavy plant you work on, many year's ago I was a gress monkey and we done alot of work like this because our machines where digging hard rock all day the only thing was our operators would gress absolutely everything, thank's for another great video.
Hi Greg. Excellent work. What is called the tool you use to push the bushings in??? Is it pneumatic, hidraulic or both them??? I didn't know it but I fell in love with it 😊
Putting in a grease groove either in the collar or bush won't help if the operator doesn't know what a grease gun is for. They never seem to remember: "Grease is cheaper than steel".
There is very high chance the other piece where this "arm" suppose to go it wouldn't fit. The "sleeve" with the nice looking welding(s) is now slightly longer, I can't say by how much but at least 3-4 mm on each side. Of course if the other piece of the arm have a large gap 10-20 mm the wouldn't be a issue but if the play gap is only 5-6 mm, both welded ends have to be cut and eventually re-welded, keeping the original size.
Once again, nice work. One thing I'd be slightly worried about is the non-sliding section in the middle where on many machine bores they install a removable sleeve in the middle. Changing out those bushings later after a life-cycle might be a chore since they're bronze and you can't weld-shrink them out? But, I'm probably over-thinking it too.
I've seen some worn out pins but that's on a whole other level. Had a customer trade in his worn out mini-ex for a new one. He didn't like that the bucket was tight on the new one. Said when they're "worn in" and can flop around that they're easier to clean out when digging. The less maintenance he does just means more money in my pocket.
This shit is all fascinating. I don’t know how to weld, started watching videos because I’m interested, and stumble on this and your other videos. Neat shit man. Way cool.
honestly the fact that excavators can work even while being abused is amazing meanwhile my car : the fuel is not tasty *error pops up* also the weather upsets me *check engine pops up* and the air is too dry for me *goes into limp mode*
80% of doing a lot of repairs and figuring out what the best way to do it and yes you could’ve welded all that up but instead you decided to cut a sleeve for in there which to me is actually better than welding it all up and probably last time and less expense and that is a 100% perfect repair compared to what it was before how that they even operated was beyond me
Greg, Don’t sell yourself short, I think you are an excellent Machinist!! Your fabricating skills are truly awesome!! It just takes practice and time!! Thanks again, Vic!!
Abom can't weld nearly as well, not even close don't you think?
Abom lost a lot of what drew in his original viewers when he went "full time" on YT. I loved seeing the big cylinders being worked on.
You do very nice work!
Thanks for sharing OFW. I was expecting a classic (and satisfying) line boring video but this is a nice twist. Always great to see alternative solutions using a bush. Props to you for calling out 2 real talents in the machinist world as well.
Your skill set is really mind blowing. The fact you can film it all too is beyond me. Thank you for doing it.
What an incredible repair you accomplished on a disastrously mistreated machine. Your having all the right equipment, the skill and knowledge to to use it all has demonstrated what a true professional can do. Thank you for taking the time to share it with us.
This is the one to show her why we had to have that battery powered grease gun. Love my DeWalt.
I love to watch you do lathe work, too, because you do it right. Adam and Kurtis are special and I know they would point out that they do not go out into the field and weld up abused machinery in the sun, rain and stormy weather. You and Isaac are the all-weather heroes and your machining is top notch. Thanks for another excellent video. That stick was really worn out! Nice job. Will be looking forward to seeing that swing bearing replacement!
Greg has no reason to sell himself short or feel inferior to Kurtis or Adam. Kurtis learned his trade in the field in Australia's mining industry, and got to the point he could not deal with the s**t in the field, so he went inside. Adam is a pure machinist, no field experience. Greg and Isaac are what I the grunge warriors.
Don't forget @snowballengineering
@@Watchyn_Yarwood Absolutely! Oliver is certainly among the best!
@@BruceBoschek YEP!! He operates out of a farm, knows farm equipment, and no BS
Very nice! You fixed the damage to the bore and the sides in one operation by machining that bushing!
Funny how you mention a man by his first name...Kurtis...and everyone knows who you're talking about, even though he's halfway around the world.
I respect you both.
Hey Greg,
I just discovered your channel a few days ago and got the impression that your work is like that of a dentist. The worse someone takes care of their machines, the sooner and more intensively you have to restore them.
The quality of your work is very impressive.
As always Greg your level of craftsmanship is well above most people’s ability. Another outstanding repair. !!!! Thanks for another great school session
*On Fire Welding* Bravo well done, thank-you sir for taking the time to bring us along. GOD Bless.
You make it look so easy when you have the experience and right tools for the job. Another Nice repair.
You may not have the tooling and/or experience of a 3rd generation machinist, but you do well enough to Get The Job Done. "Perfection is the enemy of Good Enough".
Thanks for the uploads!
He hardly machines anything any longer, he runs a informercial channel with a bit of machining. Imagine Abom out in the hot sun working on a big Cat machine, I'd give him 5 minutes max.
@@jamesdrake2378 Yeah, I noticed that. His earlier vids and build playlists were great, but he has sold out to Sponsors.
@@lerkzor He was filming at his work at Motion Industries then left the job and this was the beginning of the end in my estimation. Remember the dumb yellow Skyhook, like a mini crane attached to a cart, it was then I knew he was lost lol because he was pretending he had a bad back or something. The acting was so sad lol.
@@jamesdrake2378 Imma have to check your roll there. I don't know how old you are, but I remember being younger, and there was no way that I could have understood what it's like to literally live with body pain. He's not young any more, and he is a bit overweight too. I also suffer from both of those conditions, and let me tell you that I was jealous of his 'stupid little yellow crane thing'.
We have no right to think less of him for doing things an easier way. What I miss is the high-quality machining content, rather than yet another video showing off a cool new toy.
@@lerkzor He is obese and not even 50 years old ,part of his content is BBQ videos, One condition you can't control the other you can. Since you asked I'm 65 year old paraplegic from a work accident (heavy construction) at age 60. Nothing worse than able body person not taking care of themselves and wasting the time they have through self neglect. Got that wanker, I'm still working at the bench with my C300 permobil powerwheel chair with the 8 inch rise feature, so I would say I'm uniquely qualified to judge people that don't take care of themselves. F your roll. and ask him for the skyhook.
I'm watching Curtis, Abom and you! You are all great!
Great job all the way around ! Machining those parts and and fitting them !
Great looking job, Gregg. That is a classic repair job.
Another good one. Thanks!
Your constantly giving me that push to take the extra time and knock out top quality work within my own business.
Sure do appreciate your attention to detail and your knowledge.
Curtis is really good, Issac is really good and you Sir are really good too! Your work is exceptional for sure! Thank you for sharing with us!
Nice repair, Greg. I'm guessing that as long as folks don't maintain their equipment, you'll have plenty of work! Thanks for taking the time and effort to take us along!
I posted this on another machining channel regarding proper maintenance "PROPER MAINTENANCE??? What is this PROPER MAINTENANCE you speak of?? It is is the big bill you get for getting the machine fixed because you are too lazy to keep it properly maintained" 🤣🤣🤣
@@yeagerxpGrease Grease Grease just don't blow the seal!
This is the second channel where I’ve heard Curtis mentioned. Great shoutout. This was quite interesting to watch. Well done.
Did a very similar thing on a scissors lift. Routine maintenance in machine shop tends to be neglected. Lack of lubrication was the first of two problems. 2nd was poor design of anti-rotation for pin going through lower cylinder. Just a flat washer tacked on a 1/4" pin. I used an older Van Norman boring bar. Built a 2 insert bar, supporting the bar on the end away from the machine with a bushing. Left plenty of clearance for chips. Had plenty of room to make insert bushings with a wide shoulder to put a pin through both the cylinder pin & bushing shoulder. This was kinda fun project, and it saved lots of dollars.
Very impressed!!
Been watching a lot of your videos. It won’t be long before you have over 100,000 subscribers. It’s probably sometimes a pain in the ass to make videos for TH-cam but all us armchair welders and machinist as well as people just getting into the trade really appreciate your awesome videos. Thanks so much for taking the time to make them!!!!
Chris and Abom have some excellent filming. You're pretty mean with the camera yourself. I definitely appreciate all the effort. Especially when you are in the field.
That was a good repair to what would have been hours welding that bore. Learned so much watching "IC Weld, Kurtis and now you"
Curtis in Australia got me into lathe and milling metal, found this channel, and have the best grinding disks and cut off wheels ever because of you, 3M Cubitron. You would not think a simple grinding disk could be a game changer or business changer.
our algorithm must be similar. because it also showed me curtis from down under
You know it brother been watching him since the 3rd video they did their content has become amazing curt is a proper bird man pml
CEE & OFW 4 Life.
You got your shop cleaned and organized! 👍 Nice work on that arm! Keep up the good work.
Great job still learning here. How did you find the correct center for you boring bar with it worn so far in one direction. I see the 3 sided alignment tool but don't understand how they would find original center on a hole that oblong? Just curious thanks
It’s hard to explain, but you have to go off of other measurements and known good areas. I have explained this in some of my other videos. Definitely not relying on the centering cones to center the bar.
@@OFWOn the likes of this, it wouldn't matter that much anyway.
To you, this is day to day stuff, your job, nothing fancy
To me, i absolutely LOVE seeing the process in action.
it's so darn satisfying to turn something weird, mishapen and and no where near uniform and make it perfectly round and good.
Greg, your camera work gets better with every episode.....
not that it was ever poor.....but the angles and shots
you are getting really show the job well....Bravo......PB
Ya, I’m learning more with every video.
Kickin' ass and takin' names! Another fine job...
I love watching stuff i dont do. Watching how you cut, drill and make stuff work after milling down pure steel blanks of metal is very enjoying to me. Im a Med Diesel and Auto tech.
20:00 I have that same ratchet,
a Snap-On 710-B I got in 1972.....and it was used then,
got from my college roommate....traded him a military aircraft
seatbelt for it....
still cherish it and the memories of where and what
it has done ....
Absolutely love your channel and the range of your repair work is spot on, especially your field work, I think you are a very special tradie my friend when you consider you go to jobs that keep other businesses on the road. Really well done
ever since i was a lil boy i was in a machine shop, i knew from a young age i was going to work with my hands in a machine shop. i took every class i could in jr high and high school and then some. before i was 5 my grandfather had me stick welding to see if i would be afraid of the flame and to see if i could take getting splatter burn.,. lol love watching these type of videos. P.S. im old now, but when i step foot in a machine shop and smell it, my childhood comes flooding back, again thank u.
Don't knock yourself down comparing your work to Abomber he used to be a machinist but now is a pitchman, you do great work and with each job you learn a little more. great video of a working man.
I would have liked to seen more of how you ensured the alignment of the bore was straight. NIce job!
I think thats a better way to repair the stick... Good Job !!!!
I love these videos, when I was a kid my old dad was a farmer and he'd work at machinery that needed repair. We'd take bashed up parts to a local machine shop and bring them home looking like new, I was fascinated by how they could do this and the equipment looked like the work of black magicians. Well, now I know how they did it. 🙂
I enjoy your's, @snowballengineering and @CuttingEdgeEngineering line boring projects! I hope you continue to bring us along on these jobs!
Curtis has the luxury of not being a mobile welder. He picks jobs that let him do things slowly and carefully and has customers that almost always want it returned to original condition. You, otoh, work in field conditions (ie terrible conditions) and customers that want it done ASAP. Different skillset, different polish. Don't sell yourself short.
It isn't a luxury, he (Kurtis) earnt the workshop in the field and there are some jobs like it or not that should not be done in the field. It is erroneous to make a comparison between workshop and field repairs other than the common error made by many who compare them by saying workshop repairs are proper long term repairs and field repairs are quick fixes to get the machine working asap. Generalisations which are just as inaccurate as other comments here.
I think this was a decent fix. Well done. I would suggest making a much wider face for shims to rude against, as it helps a lot with offset radial loads.
Really admire your acknowledgement of curtis and a bomb..watch both even though I'm a cabinet maker/carpenter/joiner..
Great vid all the same. Cheers
This was my first video of yours watching and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Good job guys.
The level of detail and pride you put into your work is really great to watch. Plus that shop with all those awesome tools man.
Nice one ☝️ four hours of machining to save four hours of welding , mmm enjoyed the video so much I was late for my job 😊
Awesome job . Your videos are always interesting . A mix of everything in heavy equipment repair
I can’t be the only one that finds the lathe work mesmerizing. 🤣
there was the tiniest brass dingleberry in the second bushing in one of the grease holes. Will that affect anything later down the line? or is it so small that it is negligible. thanks for all the content love ur vids so much has been learned
I doubt it will effect anything.
@@OFW thank you for your quick reply. much appreciated, cant wait to see more vids.
On Fire Welding, Cutting Edge Engineering (Kurtis) and Abom69 are awesome channels. I’m not a machinist but enjoy every second of their vids like it’s my last. Thanks Greg and the other channels.
I posted this on a video that was over a year old so I thought I would put my comment on a more recent video.
"I love watching your repairs. I'm learning a lot. (71 years old, welded since I was 15, never professionally so...) I'd like to see some of the equipment work after you fix or modify them."
Lol, I could clearly hear how my Dad would have explained in "shop talk" how that worn out pin fit.
Great job.
sausage in a hallway?
I’m always curious about how much time it takes to do these things???
You mentioned Kurtis & Abom another fellow is Issac of IC Weld in Texas
That press was interesting, that’s not even cheating fair
I do appreciate your videos. Thank you Sir
IC weld is also very good.
Don't forget @snowballengineering
werry nice rebuild.. like the way you fixt this problem..
Nice job well done great idea adding grease slot in bushing. Fit seems loose for new OEM parts, I would measure and check dimensions of parts aganist factory specs to make sure you have correct items and a different version was not sent in error for peace of mind otherwise this joint will consume a lot of grease to keep it lubed. Ray
That Abom would make this a 7 part video no joke. You and Kurtis just get after it and keep people working thanks.
I work at a state of the art tool grinding shop but we also have a building full of the old school machines like yours, you have to. but I'd say your work is very solid. people have to remember that you are ultimately repairing heavy equipment. I was also a mechanic for decades so I'd also be the one to hang the boom back on the machine. there's probably only 2 other guys at work I'd trust to help me do that part. 😉 anyone else can just bring us oil.
Beautiful job. I've never seen bronze bushings in earth moving equipment. Have you seen it much?
Not too much. But these are direct from the factory.
Best decision to put a spacer in there, welding it all up and cutting it back would have take ages!
Looks perfect, thx for showing!
👍👍👍
Greg, you did a heck of a job, man.
You know what you doing, and do it in the right way.
Toine.
Is it pretty obvious while using the machine that the pin and bushings are that damaged?
Yes extremely obvious.
Always a bang-up job!!
Thanks for the deets and keep on doing what you enjoy!
Cheers!
A real pleasure to watch you working
Those grease fittings are so high they will never get greased up. Maybe extension tubes will make them easier to reach
Great to watch these videos. Stellar job. I'm curious as to roughly how much this job costs the client?
Damn dude. Awesome job. I wish i knew how to do this kind of thing. The set up is amazing. Don’t think you aren’t good, you are fantastic.
You are very skilled ! Sr. Great video! And sound of your voice shows you enjoy your job very much! Thanks for sharing! And keep them coming! 👌👍
I had little hope when you started. But that was perfection. Good work !
Watching all the work you do your saleing yourself short I think your a very good Engineer a great machinist and a brilliant welder the work you do would tack 2 or 3 brits to do on the heavy plant you work on, many year's ago I was a gress monkey and we done alot of work like this because our machines where digging hard rock all day the only thing was our operators would gress absolutely everything, thank's for another great video.
Серьёзная мастерская, отличная работа !
Please post the excavator roteck bearing replacement. I've just did one on a cat 345. Alot of work/ labor time.
I was glued to this video! 🤘🏼 excellent work my friend !
Hi Greg. Excellent work.
What is called the tool you use to push the bushings in???
Is it pneumatic, hidraulic or both them???
I didn't know it but I fell in love with it 😊
It’s a hollow cylinder. It’s hydraulic driven by a pneumatic pump.
Thak you Greg.
Putting in a grease groove either in the collar or bush won't help if the operator doesn't know what a grease gun is for. They never seem to remember: "Grease is cheaper than steel".
That was an Abom size twist drill ya had there. I can’t imagine anyone having issues with that machining job. Helluva job !! 🫵🏻💪🏻
Watching a lathe is interesting, you're really a talented guy!
Excellent repair, the sleeve is a very practical solution. Your welding and machine are superb
There is very high chance the other piece where this "arm" suppose to go it wouldn't fit. The "sleeve" with the nice looking welding(s) is now slightly longer, I can't say by how much but at least 3-4 mm on each side. Of course if the other piece of the arm have a large gap 10-20 mm the wouldn't be a issue but if the play gap is only 5-6 mm, both welded ends have to be cut and eventually re-welded, keeping the original size.
As I explained In the video it is wore out and needs to be longer.
Bro can you please do a video on that jack that you are using to press the bushings in and where you bought it or made it lol
Yes I can.
Hello from Northern Ontario Canada another beautiful job
Awesome camshaft design at the boom arm pivot, get's ya an extra 1.5 inches of reach
Really nice job of resurrection.
Man ,I hope the owner realises the level of accuracy in that repair, unbelievable work for a machine that is used for such rough work
Nice weld job. The machining was great too. The pin was an OK fit after all.
Once again, nice work. One thing I'd be slightly worried about is the non-sliding section in the middle where on many machine bores they install a removable sleeve in the middle. Changing out those bushings later after a life-cycle might be a chore since they're bronze and you can't weld-shrink them out? But, I'm probably over-thinking it too.
Unless they change their ways, they'll just grind it out for him 😅
@@wayneswonderarium Yeah, that's a possibility.
@@wayneswonderarium There is no need for them to change their ways, In Greg's reply to my comment "he took over the maintenance contract."
52👍's up on fire welding thank you for sharing 😮😊
So do you think think those bushings will ever see grease again?🤔🤔🤣Excellent work 👍👍👍 . Thank you for sharing. Take care of yourself 🇨🇦
They Will because we took over the maintenance contract.
Hey There, Just found your channel. 😁 I am very impressed with your style and workmanship. Cheers
You greasing the bushes will be the last time they are ever greased . Nice job Greg .
Got the skills to pay the bills 😁
Never heard that expression before. But love it!
And some
Great work and giving Abom and Kurtis cred was nice too.
The operators lunch box must be easy to reach lol Nice fix as always
Amazing job, great craftsmanship, well done!
I've seen some worn out pins but that's on a whole other level. Had a customer trade in his worn out mini-ex for a new one. He didn't like that the bucket was tight on the new one. Said when they're "worn in" and can flop around that they're easier to clean out when digging. The less maintenance he does just means more money in my pocket.
This shit is all fascinating. I don’t know how to weld, started watching videos because I’m interested, and stumble on this and your other videos. Neat shit man. Way cool.
Good stuff👍I like that repair better than all that welding and then machine out.
Don't sell yourself short! When it comes to machine repair, you learn by doing. And by god, you're doing.
Amazing! Again i wish i lived closer and could be your apprentice, amazing work once again!
honestly the fact that excavators can work even while being abused is amazing
meanwhile my car : the fuel is not tasty *error pops up* also the weather upsets me *check engine pops up* and the air is too dry for me *goes into limp mode*
Хорошая работа, отличные инструменты
Don't normally comment but you are in your element. Great job my man.
80% of doing a lot of repairs and figuring out what the best way to do it and yes you could’ve welded all that up but instead you decided to cut a sleeve for in there which to me is actually better than welding it all up and probably last time and less expense and that is a 100% perfect repair compared to what it was before how that they even operated was beyond me
Very nice job. Enjoyed watching your skill in action.