What no one is lining up wanting to buy one lol.
So I cobbled this together with some 1/4” scraps. It works pretty good too.
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What no one is lining up wanting to buy one lol.
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Are you sure it's strong enough
It wasn’t before I added the sides. It bent up on the first wheel.
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Damn I was only kidding usually one they pop a little they come right off, must be that dry climate
I had suspected it might bend right in the thinnest area and it did. I knew you were being facetious so I figured I would show you why I beefed it up a bit.
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nicely finished tool. I suspect if i were in your place i'd have left the edges ragged and been too lazy to make it into a "real" tool.
Thank you Munkul I just used the bench grinder equipped with a course gray stone and wire wheel to grind rough edges and smooth it out a bit. I Could of used a 4.5” flap disc on angle grinder but got lazy so it’s still a little rough imo.
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Ok so far I have potentially sold three of these. Nothing to write home about just chump change “beer money actually”. I have yet to be paid for any of the three interested in this. So anyway I am looking for the best way to tap the threads. If you look at the third to last picture you can see how the threaded hole on the right side is a bit crooked. I am thinkng to put the tap in a drill press and start the threads by hand with out power.
How would y’all tap the threads with out precision machinery?
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Side jobs can be nice
Yeah that helps me . Really I am just doin* a few of these for some other forum members. I am making these for $15ea and it takes a good while to make em. I probably have 1/4th of the sell price in materials alone. I have not done the math yet. Oh and I am not doing these to make any money for profit as I clearly am loosing my a$$ on these if calculating pieces made per hour lol. This is just something for me to do and learn from to see what I can do. Neck and shoulder is still kicking my a$$ from two days ago when I made just two of these.
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I’d step it up too 25-30 if u can’t buy them
Well I still have to look at john deere to see what if anything they sell for pulling the stearing wheels and see what they cost. After materials and consumables I have almost nothing left to buy beer with “palm to face”. These are not just flying off the shelf either.
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I bet you could make it in 15 minutes if you got all the tools set out. I buy metal like that for 50 cents a pound and that looks like less then a pound.get a strip of the 1/4 by 1/2 and it really easy to make the sides that way. And some 1/4x 3” flat bar or whatever size you got makes it much faster. Maybe welding on nuts is faster, then drill and tap.
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Thanks moto i appreciate the encouragement. Yes 3" x 1/4" flat stock and 3/4" x 1/4" for the sides. I purchased some material today. 10' of each listed above. I was able to cut out enough material for 13 sets. I think 3/8" would be better for this. Maybe then I can skip the sides if the material proves to be thick enough. That would save a ton of time. The threads are only 5/16 - 18nc so I am not about to fuse some cheap a$$ thin nuts with plating on them or what ever I can find locally. I know there is a quicker cheaper way to make these. I am doing it the only way i know for now. And pondering other better faster ways to keep the price down.
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Sometimes I use a tap follower as Sam suggested.
In other cases I mount the tap in the chuck of the drill press.
Then I start the drill press and then turn it off and start to tap the hole while the drill press coasts to a stop.
The tap will only tap a few threads, but will be straight.
Next I loosen the chuck and then tap it by hand lining the tap up with the end of the chuck.
Recently I made a steering wheel puller for an old tractor, for my friend that has been helping me with my addition.
The problem was that the steering wheel had a small rim on it that was rust welded to the shaft.
It didn't give us much rim to grab on, so I made split puller that was a slip fit on the shaft.
I used 1" thick stock.
I prefer to use the puller with the threaded rods as N2 used, but my friend used the arm type puller that he had.
1. Steering wheel in place
2. Small rim on hub of steering wheel
3. Puller tool
4. Home made puller
5. Steering wheel removed
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I don’t have all those fancy tools. Heck my drill press is all clapped out and underpowered. It don’t take much to stop the motor when using the 1-5/8” hole saw
I saw a single size tap and drill set pacage in the size I need at lowes yesterday and picked it up. The tap is designed to guide itself into the threads. I’m going to give it a try when I’m sober. Maybe later today.
Don it looks like someone tried to pull the wheel using just the two armed puller tool and as a result put a couple of divots in the bottom of the wheel. Interesting tractor. My best guess would be a jacobson. Power steering too. Must be nice. Or maybe a Simplicity.
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When doing hand taping buy yourself one of these you will get straight taping, I use a "C" clamp to hold it on the metal. Do remember to use cutting fluid when taping.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Tap-guide-H...9Os8bDWcN5nSSw
I have also found when using a gear puller like yous apply pressure with the puller then tap the top of the puller with a hammer, the shock will pop gear (other parts) off. Now I don't mean to beat the crap out of it just a tap. Another similar thing is with tie rod ends on a car when trying to remove the tapered ones use 2 hammers and strike from both sides at once.
If done correctly they just drop out no puller needed.
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If you're going to be doing a few holes then you better use cutting fluid like jester mentions
Anymore for smaller projects I throw a tap socket on my cordless drill and use it after starting the tap by hand to get it straight, you could also just chuck the tap in the drill but I had mixed success with that and the tap socket sets weren't too much.
I do tap on the top of the center bolt head once I have some pressure built up on the puller and it works like a charm to release the wheel from the shaft.
I will start using some kind of oil for cutting the threads.
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That tool on ebay looks pretty slick. Have you ever used it Jesture? I am ready to place an order for one but I can see it being limited in some ways.
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Use oil for taping also. Tap magic is good stuff. I use it for all lathe and milling and drilling and taping. And wd-40 on aluminum