Well, I finally got my shaper. Some of you may remember this pic from the seller...
Had to go collect in my landie because the big van is temp off road having the brakes sorted...
Seller offered me a little power hacksaw, be rude to say no...
Seller insisted he had all the gear to load, but when we arrived "all the gear" turned out to be two dodgy scaff boards and a pallet truck. fortunately I had packed some bits n bobs llike a decent pinch bar, a turfer type winch and some bars and oak blocks. So we found some breezeblock and supported the scaff boards every ft or so, strapped them the landie and winched the shaper into the back using the handwinch and barstock as rollers egyptian pyramid stylee
Arrived home... Now now to get them out on my own safely...
*IDEA*, use bike ramp, its rated 600kgs. Remove load ramp so there is no overhang from the main scissor platform, elevate to level of rear of landrover .
First the little saw out, its very cute...
Then, the big iron with the table now strapped firmly to rear of landie to stop any accidents...
Home and a quick assesment of the condition is it was even rougher than its appearance. The gearbox was seized and the table feeds were broken in a bucket with the machine.
First, rebuild the seized gearbox. fortunately it looked like the shift refused to move because some fool had painted over the sliding mechanisms...
Thats the sliding gear cluster, the shift fork and the indented gearshift position slider. After a LOT of cleanup finishing with a session on the polisher with a sizal stitched mop to finish polish them
Finally, cleaned up all the slideways with a nylon pan scourer, and on the very roughest part of the ram removed the corrosion with a flat bearing scraper until the kellering (little lines from when it was made) just began to come to the surface. Cleaned up all the leadscrew and nuts and rebuilt the feed mechanism. Removed all the layers of paint and discovered it was originally olive green, so then of course, painted it fluffy green
Now waiting for a flat belt to arrive to hook it up to the 3hp motor mounted on the base, and the manual feed handwheel is shattered so I need to make another one to replace it. Still need a better camera
Not so bad for a few nights work. Im quietly pleased with it still.
Now time for that little saw
Had to go collect in my landie because the big van is temp off road having the brakes sorted...
Seller offered me a little power hacksaw, be rude to say no...
Seller insisted he had all the gear to load, but when we arrived "all the gear" turned out to be two dodgy scaff boards and a pallet truck. fortunately I had packed some bits n bobs llike a decent pinch bar, a turfer type winch and some bars and oak blocks. So we found some breezeblock and supported the scaff boards every ft or so, strapped them the landie and winched the shaper into the back using the handwinch and barstock as rollers egyptian pyramid stylee
Arrived home... Now now to get them out on my own safely...
*IDEA*, use bike ramp, its rated 600kgs. Remove load ramp so there is no overhang from the main scissor platform, elevate to level of rear of landrover .
First the little saw out, its very cute...
Then, the big iron with the table now strapped firmly to rear of landie to stop any accidents...
Home and a quick assesment of the condition is it was even rougher than its appearance. The gearbox was seized and the table feeds were broken in a bucket with the machine.
First, rebuild the seized gearbox. fortunately it looked like the shift refused to move because some fool had painted over the sliding mechanisms...
Thats the sliding gear cluster, the shift fork and the indented gearshift position slider. After a LOT of cleanup finishing with a session on the polisher with a sizal stitched mop to finish polish them
Finally, cleaned up all the slideways with a nylon pan scourer, and on the very roughest part of the ram removed the corrosion with a flat bearing scraper until the kellering (little lines from when it was made) just began to come to the surface. Cleaned up all the leadscrew and nuts and rebuilt the feed mechanism. Removed all the layers of paint and discovered it was originally olive green, so then of course, painted it fluffy green
Now waiting for a flat belt to arrive to hook it up to the 3hp motor mounted on the base, and the manual feed handwheel is shattered so I need to make another one to replace it. Still need a better camera
Not so bad for a few nights work. Im quietly pleased with it still.
Now time for that little saw
