Offset Bored Bushings to Fix Worn Hole and Retain Maximum Material 

I’m continually looking forward to Brian’s next video. They are always educational and entertaining, just as this was.

By looking at the chips, the cast iron was of high quility, don't find that in any more in todays aftermarket junk coming into our country. It's jobs like this that show us Rockies how to fixture large parts, thx Brian.

Great to see some big machine action. Best thing is the principles are all scaleable. Everything would still be relevant for smaller jobs taken non by regular home machinists on regular sized machines. Thanks for showing the double offset bushes, a very thoughtful get er done type solution. All the best, Mart in England.

Paint the grease fittings yellow 💛. See them better. I have a feeling those original grease fittings are close to new.😂😂 Nice job as always 👍...

Farmer, mechanic, machinist can just get it done, very good

That horizontal boring mill sure has been an asset to you! Bet you’re glad you have it!!😊 They almost let it go beyond the ability to be repaired! Good save!

Nice work 👍. I'm in my 50's and that's the second time in my life I heard " square with the world " 😅

Nice job, you should of changed the oil in the hubs for him whilst there. It might be the only time they have/ will be serviced by the state of greasing program of that axle. Top class work as always & thanks for taking us along the way.

Always appreciate your imaginative yet simple approach to tough situations. I’ll say it, Brian. You’re a genius. Roll On

nice work. we had exactly same problem on our 6800. most likely because we never greased it. probably never even climbed under it or looked at it. just drove it for about 16000 hrs over about 20 years

Definitely miss seeing the shop boss around, especially since our two ridgebacks also aged out recently. Nice job, extending the life of a good old piece of machinery.

Nice work Brian. I always like seeing the Big HBM Action. Thanks for sharing. Have a good evening.

Great work Brian, makes total sense boring off centre. Great stuff. Thanks for sharing

Nice job Bri !! I'm going back to work on my boring mill tomorrow after a 3 day weekend. The old lady says " you cant wait for long weekends and here you are watching machine shop videos ! Whats wrong with you ?!?" I guess it just gets in your blood. We like to see other peoples set-ups, tooling, procedures and whatever... anyway..thanks for another cool video. Cheers from Canada.

It's amazing to have all the weight of a John Deere axle being bucked around, on a section of material, no bigger than a Pillow Block

I'm aways astounded how clean your customers maintain their equipment when they bring it to your shop for surgery. That offset bushing is sweet.

I saw the title I was a bit surprised you had branched out to worm hole repair. But with This Old Tony's discovery of time travel via his lathe, I quickly took your worm hole break through in stride, & thought, 'Way to go, Brian!' So, how is the repair of worm holes going anyway? You didn't mention it at all in your vid; kept talk about bushings & offset. Figured that was code for putting them to the side so you could get to your REAL work, worm hole repair. Good on ya, too, they really need the attention, the Infrastructure Repair Act's galactic inclusion amendment got voted down, again... Well, keep up the good work... and don't be so quiet about your next interstellar discovery. People wanna know!

Hi Brian , Great to see your video. It looks like you saved somebody quite a bit of money. We’re repairing that piece. Good on you.

Very clever approach. Win - Win for everyone

That far one though 🍳😄 Nice save, they owe you one.

Like the MacGyver setup, with basically every bloc, and fastener you can imagine! The boring bar seems to be moving up, and down a bit, when it is running...

Nice job. The ole machine still loyal as can be.

Another one in the books!

Yep you got that right! That'll be the last time these grease! Nice repair Brian

Your value as a mechanic/machinist is simply fantastic! Bringing them back to life! Right tools and knowledge anything is possible. Always enjoy, thanks.

As usual Brian, great job. Another tractor goes back to work. Art from Ohio

I also like seeing the G&L in action, wish I had one of those and a place to put it.

Another awesome job Brian. You are the man!!!

I had one of those came in my shop and the hole in the top of the housing had gone through the housing .I had a 6150R housing in with less then 3000 hrs.' ! no grease. I build these hole up with nickel and then bore them out

I am just commenting to feed the algorithm Brian. Best Wishes to You and Your Family.

You can use the bolds of the frame itself to possibly mount an additional bearing. Plus indicate the movement of the boaring bar: it should not deflect when the cut and therefore the hole is uniform and round. You see quite a deflection during the initial cuts

Loved to see the master at work - thanks for sharing.

Great job Brian!

Another part saved from the grease worms.

Very pragmatic approach ! Congrats !

Very well done

Nice work bud!

Nice fix Brian 👍🏼👍🏼

Thank you for another great video. Stay safe out there. Cheers

Thanks for the late video Brian. Great as always.

Great discussion and repair

very good job brian..thanks for your time

Great repair as usual. Thanks for the video keep on keeping on.

Big jobs on a little mill. :) Another cool project.

Great save 👍👍

👍👍 looks good man... should work good... thanks for sharing...have a good week..see ya next time 👍👍👊

Brain I haven't sead this for a time but I really appreciate your videos.

Looks to me like there is not enough bearing surface area for the weight that they are carrying in the environment that there are exposed to. Of course, I'm not trying to keep a constant flow of work for a service center staff to stay busy. Nice save with the offset bushing. it leaves as much original metal where it is needed, and the thicker bushing material is in the spot of the most wear.

I'm thinking a few tubes of grease could have prevented the majoof this repair. Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦

Nice.

My own personal guess would have been that they drilled the zerk ports on the shaft's centerline.

It ain't called Baghdad Kentucky windage for nothing. You and your micrometer eyeball.Blessings!

"Well, they're in there now." - that's what she said.

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Next they’ll leave the tires on. Looks like there is run out on the short bar

Looks like a grease optional situation

Fascinating as always. How was the bronze bushing (which looked to be a work of art) retained?. Loktite, press fit or??. Just curious.

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How long did the set-up take?

What do you have that allows the boring tip to expand to create the groove in the centre of each steel bush?

How did your set up work on the back bore (the first one you showed) did you push the boring bar through that fixed bearing that was mounted to that angle block?

Bent boring bar?

Typically something worn that bad should get line bore welded then line bore. Still nice save .

Grease is sooo much cheaper than steel or iron

Did you think about welding those holes up in the low spots?

It seems like you have a ton of runout on that spendle, what is tolerable?

that casting is very thin

I don't understand why anyone puts parts like that on their machine, if it shows up dirty and nasty you get charged a special fee. I would never put a bunch of work into a part just to have it fail again just because there was a defect or crack hidden from years of dirt and build up. I was bitten by that once before, never again. I am not worried about getting the machine dirty, that is what machines are for, I am concerned that I am going to do work and get blamed for something later on. Which is the exact case I had to deal with, part came in dirty as all hell, I suggested cleaning the part (dude said no), I did the repair and 3 months later the part failed because of a hidden crack. I still got the blame and refunded dude his money. If you bring it to my shop, you better stop at a pressure wash booth, the clock on the wall doesn't rotate any slower because I am doing our job and neither does the final bill. I am glad to see you doing the work and getting use out of that machine, but I could never take on the work in that condition.

very boring except at 5;23 when the world moved

Fine work my friend