Martinm210
ArboristSite Operative
After much thought about this saw rebuilding and reading a few horror stories about crank bearings giving way, I decided that I wanted to finish up the job and do the crank bearings on my 066 and 044 build. The 044 had a bad bearing anyway.
I tried all the suggest tricks for getting the bearings out without a press, but just couldn't do it. I was also getting tired of trying to clean out in all the nooks and crannys when I wanted to repaint the cases and other parts, so I headed over the hill to my local Harbor Frieght to do some shopping.
First up, my new sand blasting cabinet. Oh so nice, it still takes time, but working really well to get down to bare metal in all those tight places. Strapped in a light, hooked up my shop vac, and went to town stripping pieces clean..
Speaking of sand blasting, has anyone bought and used one of those powder coating systems?
It seems like powder coating a case and starter cover would be the ideal for durability??
And on to my next tool...originally was looking at a 6ton A frame style shop press, but I didn't like the mechanics of it, and was hopefull this 1 Ton arbor press would do the trick.
After cutting out a nice block of wood to press around the crank and turning some aluminum stock for an arbor (socket would work just fine too, I just didn't have any that big). I was in business.... Of coarse my youngest wanted to be included in the operation, my little press helper.
The arbor press works awesome, I don't know how you guys can do these bearings without a press....I couldn't do it even after trying all the heating suggestions.
Cheers to tools..., fairly low cost(around $175 for both) and very helpful CAD rebuilding tools..:greenchainsaw:
I tried all the suggest tricks for getting the bearings out without a press, but just couldn't do it. I was also getting tired of trying to clean out in all the nooks and crannys when I wanted to repaint the cases and other parts, so I headed over the hill to my local Harbor Frieght to do some shopping.
First up, my new sand blasting cabinet. Oh so nice, it still takes time, but working really well to get down to bare metal in all those tight places. Strapped in a light, hooked up my shop vac, and went to town stripping pieces clean..
Speaking of sand blasting, has anyone bought and used one of those powder coating systems?
It seems like powder coating a case and starter cover would be the ideal for durability??
And on to my next tool...originally was looking at a 6ton A frame style shop press, but I didn't like the mechanics of it, and was hopefull this 1 Ton arbor press would do the trick.
After cutting out a nice block of wood to press around the crank and turning some aluminum stock for an arbor (socket would work just fine too, I just didn't have any that big). I was in business.... Of coarse my youngest wanted to be included in the operation, my little press helper.
The arbor press works awesome, I don't know how you guys can do these bearings without a press....I couldn't do it even after trying all the heating suggestions.
Cheers to tools..., fairly low cost(around $175 for both) and very helpful CAD rebuilding tools..:greenchainsaw: