Repairing A Badly Worn, Obsolete Part for a Hay Baler - Manual Machine Shop

One shrink fit and half a keg of moonshine later we're golden ...very happy lol

My father was doing plumbing in a commercial kitchen and someone knocked over a large oxygen tank and broke off the stem which than it became a torpedo. No one was hurt as it went through a wall thank God . Please chain up your bottles. I was just watching random videos enjoyed yours but noticed your gas bottles not secured.

It's always good to be able to repair expensive parts and save customers a fortune as opposed to them buying a new part. It also works when the part is no longer available, as it saves an old machine so they don't have to spend an even bigger fortune to replace an expensive machine.

The method I normally use is to get frozen to the pin, get burned by the casting, jamb up the press, and then knock the whole setup on the floor. Good finish on yours!!

It’s always best to heat the whole part in a something like an oven rather than localised heating. When heating with a torch the expanded material close the centre has nowhere to go since the outside of the part is still relatively cool this can sometimes make the bore smaller!. In this case it was the underside that must have had a heat induced taper. I love your videos and never see you make a mistake without explaining your reasons for/against afterwards. I work for a UK based engineering company with 14 years tool based experience, just passing on some knowledge an old timer kindly/angrily gave to me

Watching shrink fits gives me the hives. That moment when it suddenly won't budge any further and I fall off my chair. Glad it worked well, Josh. Good repair, as always.

You earned that "shot" for sure! Awesome work! A good neighbor to your customers!

As someone who owns an old baler, I liked this one.

nice unintentional wave effect with combined rolling shutter and vibration.

That must have been scary when the pin got stuck. Great work rushing to the press to get it home.

So nice to see a true craftsman at work.

Jeez I hated hay bailing when I was young. It would be fun to see the owner's reaction to his machine working quietly for the first time in forever.

I love seeing these sort of repairs. It is good to see how you go about doing them and we learn a lot, thanks

Love you working on old parts!!!

Thank you Josh!

Yesterday was a major stressful day here at the shop (auto shop) so it was relaxing watching this today, Thanxx

Refreshing and motivating to see a “true life repair” of a valuable piece of machinery. I guess I’ve watched too many videos of machinists making “tools and toys.” I have enjoyed most of those, but this is really what it is all about!

Great video Josh, you always do cool stuff. Takes me right back to my farming and boiler making days for steam trains, traction engines as well, in fact anything that needed a boiler.

I really appreciated seeing a professional tackle one of the trickiest machining tasks there is.

Awesome video! extremely cool shop! I had a part made in Detroit mi and got a tour of the shop blown away at what they could make. Machinists are so talented.