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Originally Posted by sidevalve8ba
Gary, I have the greatest admiration for anyone who can build their own home. That is a monumental feat in itself. I have been accused of a few things in my life but never of being a carpenter! I am curious about what type of wood you burn. Probably somewhat different than what we use here. I burn mostly seasoned white oak.
Keep up the news on the 9 inch project. I've used them for years with very good results.
Ted
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Thanks Ted, but building a house in my 20's was actually relatively easy and painless as opposed to tearing half of a 1984 case skidsteer apart to get into the oily bilge and wrestle with a jungle of hoses, pumps, six big roller chains, an Italian air cooled diesel someone swapped in that blocked access to factory bolts.... at 72 years old. Add to this it all had to be done in the woods where it broke because the axle that failed lost it's chain which bound up the wheels on one side and it couldn't be towed.
Flash forward to 9" rear. With the needed fitting on order for converting to 3/16" lines, and driveshaft mods hopefully averted, I turned my attention to the parking brakes. When you live and work on ground that is steeper than a cow's face, and you run a single master cylinder you gotta have good ones. The cables with the 9" housing are in perfect shape and have the expanding ring of spring steel blades that click into the backing plate, but they just have a ball end where I need a clevis. Plus they are about 6" too long. I have sketched up a sleeve for the chassis end of the cable jacket and another weld on affair to get a 5/16" x 24 threaded end for the clevis. Making these parts parts would be extremely tedious with my grinder, hacksaw, drill and vise, but adding this old metal lathe should make light work of it. Oh, and Ted... Douglas Fir. White oak in my dreams.......