Fire Wood Processor

[dallen]

put a battery on it and see if it will start

[Roadracer_Al]

That's nice! You could put a 2 output gear box on it and have a splitter & a generator. :)

[f350ca]

Stripped off the generator, actually had to to get it out of the enclosure.
Its been sitting for 20+ years, rolling the flywheel over at first indicated no compression, but after a few revolutions Im getting it on one cylinder. May give it a drink of atf through the intake and see what happens. Could well be stuck valves. The hour meter is only showing 582 hours.

[Pete O]

That is one nice freebie Greg. looks like the same engine as my Kubota lawnmower, although I'm sure they come in various displacement / horsepower sizes. Mine has the hydrostatic gearbox drive from one end of the crank and the PTO for the deck off the other end via twin B-section v belts.

[f350ca]

While the engine marinates in ATF Im working on the transfer case. This is the driven shaft, it will drive the one hydraulic pump and the electric clutch. I need to cut a keyway down that 1:4 taper, any ideas how to hold the shaft?

[Vinny]

3 jaw chuck or collet in a a fixture on an angle? Me? I'd cheat and try to hold the shaft in the vise with a spacer under it to hold the angle and go for it.

[f350ca]

The vice idea was what I was planning Vinny then I remembered I'd built a tooling plate and have never used it. Worked like a charm. Almost a sine plate.


The finished product.

[Vinny]

Nice!!!

[Roadracer_Al]

Very nice setup. I'll have to remember that. I'll have to build a tooling plate first... I do have a tapping head, and if I could ever figure out what size the J-Flex collets are, I'd order some bigger sizes.

[f350ca]

Would sure like to have a tapping head, you can't imagine how much when I was making that plate. Saw it on a machining video, possibly OX Tool, he was using it with a pivot and stops to radius the ends of linkages. Worked really nice, but now I can't remember what I was going to make the linkages for.