Brilliant job. I've done one of these and thoroughly enjoyed doing it. I notice your boring bar is hollow. My set up has bearing blocks to hold the bar true to the bore, but just looking at your set up, i really like the set up you have. The bar holders would work perfectly as a steady when dealing with harder material, taking bigger cuts or even just for traverse speed. It could go on the end to steady the bar (space permitting). Very good video, keep them coming
GREAT... but instead of welding bits on, I think baling twine would be more authentic, with a few rusty 6" nails and a chicken sitting on some eggs and a whisky still smoking in the background 🤔👍...
Damn nice. First time I ever saw grease grooves in excavator/backhoe bucket pivot pins. Sweet. All we were ever able to do years ago was to break the cylinder down, take the rod to a shop (like yours) and have it done. Most often repairs were for catastrophic breakage, damage to the rod or leakage rebuilds.
What kind of boring bar? Looks like an old boring set up for doing diesel engine blocks. We had an old kwikway bar and just use the bar and feed unit to bore with. Boughts some bearings and it work great. The feed unit was light duty wouldn't feed vertical. Great for buckets!
Very interesting to see your line boring setup in action. Couldn't quite make out from the video what type of cutter you used. Was it brazed on carbide?
