I can remember the cat dealer coming to my grandfather coming to his farm and turning the pins and bushings on his 2 D2’s. I think it took one man a little over a day per tractor. The dealer was about 40 miles away. Most of my grandparents brothers and sisters had either D2’s or D4’s and they worked it so the dealer brought the equipment down and did all that needed to be done then took it back. As a kid I had found wooden boxes full of worn out pins and bushings by the scrap iron pile the wooden tops of the boxes had been nailed shut. As a kid I had to open the boxes to find out what they were. The oldest D2 had a fender fuel tank and the throttle was cast iron and had a spring loaded pin to push to advance or decrease the engine speed. The newer one had a black handle throttle attached to the air cleaner. When I was 6-8 yrs old some else had to advance the throttle for me when operating the tractor. Both tractors had canopies which had angle iron uprights attached to the corner of each fender and wood as wide as the tractor with canvas from his combine header stretched from the front board to the back board. As a young kid I worked driving the tractor wearing shorts, no shirt or shoes. The foot wells were too hot for my bare feet so I put my feet on the seat till I needed to turn.
It does not matter if the machine is new or old the undercarriage wears out the same if used. Just like the tires on a car. We used to send out a lot of tracks for turning and or new pins and bushings D6, D7, D8. Sometimes we did not catch in time and the bushings wore through. Our track press contractor complained, I went to see him he had 3 pieces of ¾ plywood thick in a shield he would stand behind when he pressed out the broken bushings and there were pieces of broken bushing stuck in his plywood shield. Would not be acceptable today. Great Work, Thanks
You may not have the degree but your engineering appears as good as any book could have set it out. I am awed by the ingenuity you apply to salvage what is only precious to a select few and saving what for most is of greater scrap value. Kudos!
Except he’s not just eyeballing things at all! One of my favorite parts of this channel is how Squatch comes up with practical ways to achieve the precision needed in each situation.
Toby, you have been a busy man. I knew when you hadn't put a video out you were making the tooling to get those chains back together, I remember how long it took to get them apart I knew putting them back together was going to be very laborious job to put them back together. Just remember how good those wide pads are going to look.
Engineering and machine work to make tools to work with. The patience of Job, bulldog determination, long term focus, amazing. This is why I watch these videos of Squatch. Toby is at the next level, Thanx for sharing.😃
Fantastic understanding and description of the pin/bushing replacement. This video should be mandatory for CAT employees! Your tenacity and forward thinking with this and other projects has made you an incredible teacher. Thanks for taking the time with us. Be well, be safe!
When I worked for a Cat dealer in central Florida many years ago we had a complete building just for rebuilding the tracks. We also built up the wear surface on the links with a submerged arc wire feed welder. I wish I could remember their setup to assemble the tracks but that just wasn't my area. The tracks were elevated about waist high so it probably was to allow for the press. I do remember them laying the tracks out flat on the concrete floor and hooking a cable to them and pulling them up on the tables. The forklift operators were quite adept at rolling and unrolling tracks. You had no reason to argue with them when they shooed you out of the way to unroll a small track much less a D-9. It was quite the process with a large crew working non stop. It was a hot dusty dirty job that was cold in the winter and sweltering in the summer. Yes it does get cold in central Florida. Cheers Terry
Your absolutely correct - labour costs in todays day and age make it far less appealing for guys to do pin and bushing turns, especially on D6 - D1 - there are some dealers still doing D7/D8 but D9-D11 I’d say have more appeal to do a pin and bushing turn just because the cost of the undercarriage is substantially higher compared to the smaller tractors so it makes more sense. Good luck with all the pressing!!
Another great video Squatch. I would say the press cat had was massive. You have to give yourself a pat on the back for how well your press is working. Thansk for the video Squatch we appreciate the hard work you put into them. Cheers
Glad to see you addressing the heating and cooling parts for installation debate, I'm satisfied with your reasoning there Squatch, makes perfect sense. 👍
A continuous chip is not what you want on a lathe A chip breaker insert is a safer way to run and the chips take up much less space in the scrap bin. I run a machine shop and I forbid the practice from my guys. Cheers and I enjoy your channel very much.
Gday Squatch, thank you very much for sharing these videos of your journey on your Cat Crawler, I look forward to every episode. I don’t have or own a Cat Crawler but I do own a pair of Cletrac’s models DD & DDH , anyway keep up the awesome work . Cheers for now Ray from Down Under, Australia.
We still have D5 and bigger tracks pin and bushings turned. Well worth the cost. Undercarriage is massive expense. Our largest dozer is a D8N and we just picked up a D7E. All were I work, not personally owned. Our Cat dealer does the track work. We do the rest.
There also another reason to avoid using heat/cool fitting. Metal, regardless of its production methods, has an internal structure that can be permanently altered with the application of heat. A worst case scenario would be that something became hardened but not tempered. This leaves a piece of metal that is brittle and prone to shattering.
I would imagine that the press CAT had was probably absolutely massive. I mean they would have been doing D2s through D8s and D9s. Not sure if they used the same machine for all of them, but I would assume they tried to at least use one machine for most to be efficient. Would have been so cool to see. I think I was born in the wrong time period lol!
@@squatch253 Had different dies for different track rails and the bolt tightening part you had power up and down to adjust it! Also a rail guide to the press, ours was elevated with a angled ramp to get them up to the guide and a wench to pull the rails up on it and to the press! Thia one he built is doing a great job, keep it up!
Your explanation of the detail of work that goes into turning pins and bushings shows how much work really goes into assembling of a set of tracks. This is no no small job! Plus is dangerous to boot!
Great video!!I am just an average shade tree mechanic that works on daily driver junk. I still enjoy learning about all the stuff you do!! Very impressive video!!
Just sold my factory and retired but I had go/no go gauges for various subassemblies and finished high volume coils. Worked great if wingnut employees would use them. Putting together a small welding/fab shop to play with in my retirement. The day I need an employee will be the day the wife is supposed to take me out into the woods and put lead in my head. I will never in my life have another employee. Just not worth it.Right now my tools aren't disappearing, I'm not spending hours or days fixing someone else's screw up,and stress is reduced 99.5%. You look to be having an absolutely wonderful time doing what you love after working for the man. Hope your finances stay strong so you can continue to do so my friend. If you need to earn think about a mechanic shop: you will excel at it with your previous experience and Lord knows honest mechanics are few and far between.
Your prep, tooling, standards and such are as interesting as the actual assembly, probably more. We can watch heat-and-beat or flame wrench work on a dozen other channels.
So much work goes on behind the scenes, thank you for your dedication to detail! Also, hope you don't get into trouble for swiping that cookie sheet!! ;)
First off hope you and your family have a great Thanksgiving second awesome video. I truly admire the way you and your dad look at tasks and make sure things are safe and the out come is as rite as possible. You guys are a rare breed nowadays When you were talking about pin and bushing turns and them becoming a thing of the past not only due to labor costs, cheep aftermarket chains but also with the invention of the rotating bushing on chains. It will wear all the way around instead of just 2 sides Anyway keep up the great work I look forward to seeing the progress and preservation of your fleet
The track winder is also used when welding grouser replacement wear strips on the worn pads! Did that with two people, one on the one side one on the other to weld front half when it went over the top and level on the other side weld the other side of strip! Made it a lot faster!
The Cat pressgear these days will be 100 or 150 tons. For SALT/HD tracks, a pin/bushing turn makes sense above D6 level, if you have a dealer worth a dang (i.e., the Houston-area dealer will botch any turn at any size, so don't go that route- I know, I worked for them and our internal rework was astronomical) For quite a while there, Cat was pushing SystemONE real hard. The bushings turn in use, and they claimed they'd last a lot longer. Not so much in my experience.
0:29 i find this kind of funny, because i was looking through old catalogs of pre-Cat tracked equipment and in one section, they detail the factory work. One of the pictures is a chap sitting by a massive lathe, like bigger than a regular big one and by him, a big human neck sized long snake curled chip going for meters and meters. They were hardcore back then.
Good to know there is another man who knows not to heat it first. As you've said the real feel is with room temperature parts, clarification; room temp is all parts kept together at the same place[ shed, garage or heated workshop] Same, same, ...same good video as usual thanks Toby.
Are you going to weld up the rails? The hard part is holding it up once you get it half way together. That's why that dealer put in a pit. Your doing great, watch your fingers.
That's a lot of tooling that goes into repairing the tracks but it sure makes for excellent video . The press fit is the only way to completely lock the pins and bushings together that was figured out in the factory and that is how you repair them. Keep up the great videos
What a fantastic learning process . I think might have to look into this to do a TD 5 as there appears nothing available for one . But will have to add some welding .. love your work . Thanks from the land down under
Thank you for the explanation and the vintage articles and illustrations. You addressed my question about whether Cat dealers did press track pins on and off as part of the routine service offered to their customers. It's also clear that a lot of ingenuity was being applied by dealers and their employees to make pressing track pins off and on safer and more efficient. What I find surprising is that Cat apparently did not have one or more models of factory-engineered high efficiency track press available for sale to its dealers.
I'm sure appreciating all this effort Toby. I've got an IH T-6 I'm going to be restoring and it needs major track repair. It was kinda my white whale, found it 25+ years ago and couldn't get it bought. About 4 years ago found it in a buddy's shed and finally got it bought. Like this D2 it is getting the full treatment with a slight engine upgrade. Original engine was gone so it's justifiable.
Early fix of machining on a Friday night for me, usually I watch Cutting Edge Engineering in Aus for that fix but Squatch is in first lol. I'm sure you know that channel Squatch but if you don't I'm sure you'll enjoy it😁
I enjoy your fine attention to the details on any job. There used to be a sign on the wall where I worked that said "If you don't have time to do the job right, when will you have time to do it over?" I think most places, especially in the repair industry, don't really subscribe to that line of thinking.
Hey Squatch, I have been watching your work for a long time. Your abilities never cease to amaze me! I know you are safety conscious and I want you to please tuck the hoodie string in when running that lathe. I appreciate you and God Bless.
Squatch253 tool making abilities are something else... Squatch253. Through the winter time, could you please explain and demonstrate "Face Harding" I never had the chance to work with steel/metals.........Rick. Canonsburg, PA.
Another presenter was talking about firearms manufacturing and he noted that in the old days labor was cheap and materials were expensive. Nowadays the opposite is true.
Thanks for sharing buddy you are definitely getting a workout on this job with everything you are doing hope you and your family have a great thanksgiving
Plus if you heat something it could bend , twist or not shrink back to the original size that maybe what happened to that one you showed us , and the temper could be drawn out and it get brittle and crack.
Interesting video, with all the background info! I wonder if the operator in the 12 X 12 Cat press machine had protection from flying parts during a mishap, or if this was still in the "Good luck to ya" days.
Yep I remember when my dad took the tracks off his D2 and had the pins and bushings turned in fact I think he had new pins and bushings put in as a bushings were war all the way through this work was done by the cat dealer in Lowell Indiana
I can see why Toby went all the way to make sure the pin and pushing turning is done right. Now imagine one or more of the track links is pushed in crooked? It's the same as with making a new wooden bed for a truck. If one thing is crooked everything will run crooked or look odd or off center. So prep work here is very important. The old tools of the past where actually very reliable but they where also very expensive back in the day. Maybe that is the reason they have outlasted there younger analogs? Who knows.
New VS turn the bush... We see that C&C, where Clint puts a new undercarriage under a good tractor.. The fresh parts are now so close in price to gaining 1/2 more life for a working dozer/tractor, plus, new is a huge selling point when reselling into a working world, as compared to collector world, where originality is more important, and labor is hobby effort.
Yes, I think you will want to harden your adaptors. However, does the recess in them especially the pin adapter might need to be a little larger and/ or a slight taper or bevel it help or align it or fit it? Video clip 6:40, you can see it jump into the recessed pocket. Just food for thought. I have a habit a times of getting things so tight and exacting that I spend way to much time getting there, and getting a final end production unit because I tried to be too nit picky. Heat and chill works great for large newly machined items like flywheels, and ring gears but I would agree with you say saying not on used pieces.
Would adding weld to the bore of worn out tracks, then machining them back to spec be viable? Great videos, always looking forward to the next to come out.
Hi Toby, I can well imagine that you do not want to be offering a 'turn pin' service to other rebuilders. Maybe you could consider loaning the press set ups out? You would need a signed confirmation (lawyer drawn up?) that the use was all entirely down to the new operators risk - as you have pointed out it is fraught with danger for the inexperienced - and I think some contribution to a good cause would also not go amiss. Hmm, probably not my best idea ever! Maybe you would like to say a few words on camera about it?
78yr old mechanic
Worked in mining for 40 years. Sent out many sets of tracks for pin and brushing turns. Cashman Equipment, Reno, Nevada.
0:10 - 0:40 Seeing machining do that in long curly strands is almost soothing...
I never dreamt that track servicing could require so much thought and planning. I really underestimated this aspect Squatch. Thank you as ever.
I can remember the cat dealer coming to my grandfather coming to his farm and turning the pins and bushings on his 2 D2’s. I think it took one man a little over a day per tractor. The dealer was about 40 miles away. Most of my grandparents brothers and sisters had either D2’s or D4’s and they worked it so the dealer brought the equipment down and did all that needed to be done then took it back. As a kid I had found wooden boxes full of worn out pins and bushings by the scrap iron pile the wooden tops of the boxes had been nailed shut. As a kid I had to open the boxes to find out what they were. The oldest D2 had a fender fuel tank and the throttle was cast iron and had a spring loaded pin to push to advance or decrease the engine speed. The newer one had a black handle throttle attached to the air cleaner. When I was 6-8 yrs old some else had to advance the throttle for me when operating the tractor. Both tractors had canopies which had angle iron uprights attached to the corner of each fender and wood as wide as the tractor with canvas from his combine header stretched from the front board to the back board. As a young kid I worked driving the tractor wearing shorts, no shirt or shoes. The foot wells were too hot for my bare feet so I put my feet on the seat till I needed to turn.
It does not matter if the machine is new or old the undercarriage wears out the same if used. Just like the tires on a car.
We used to send out a lot of tracks for turning and or new pins and bushings D6, D7, D8. Sometimes we did not catch in time and the bushings wore through. Our track press contractor complained, I went to see him he had 3 pieces of ¾ plywood thick in a shield he would stand behind when he pressed out the broken bushings and there were pieces of broken bushing stuck in his plywood shield. Would not be acceptable today.
Great Work, Thanks
You may not have the degree but your engineering appears as good as any book could have set it out. I am awed by the ingenuity you apply to salvage what is only precious to a select few and saving what for most is of greater scrap value. Kudos!
TLAR Engineering. That Looks About Right.
Except he’s not just eyeballing things at all! One of my favorite parts of this channel is how Squatch comes up with practical ways to achieve the precision needed in each situation.
Thanks for sharing. I'm sure that there are a lot of Caterpillar people looking at your methods.
Toby, you have been a busy man. I knew when you hadn't put a video out you were making the tooling to get those chains back together, I remember how long it took to get them apart I knew putting them back together was going to be very laborious job to put them back together. Just remember how good those wide pads are going to look.
Engineering and machine work to make tools to work with. The patience of Job, bulldog determination, long term focus, amazing. This is why I watch these videos of Squatch. Toby is at the next level, Thanx for sharing.😃
Looks like you have it well planned out. Now you can open your old caterpillar track rebuilding facility. 🙂
Very good explanation of why not to use heat and shrink method.
Fantastic understanding and description of the pin/bushing replacement. This video should be mandatory for CAT employees! Your tenacity and forward thinking with this and other projects has made you an incredible teacher. Thanks for taking the time with us. Be well, be safe!
Hey Squatch an incredible amount of engineering and tenacity on your part - I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of this video !!
John
What you do is absolute mind boggling. I would become so confused by keeping every piece in order!
When I worked for a Cat dealer in central Florida many years ago we had a complete building just for rebuilding the tracks. We also built up the wear surface on the links with a submerged arc wire feed welder.
I wish I could remember their setup to assemble the tracks but that just wasn't my area. The tracks were elevated about waist high so it probably was to allow for the press.
I do remember them laying the tracks out flat on the concrete floor and hooking a cable to them and pulling them up on the tables.
The forklift operators were quite adept at rolling and unrolling tracks.
You had no reason to argue with them when they shooed you out of the way to unroll a small track much less a D-9. It was quite the process with a large crew working non stop.
It was a hot dusty dirty job that was cold in the winter and sweltering in the summer.
Yes it does get cold in central Florida.
Cheers
Terry
Your absolutely correct - labour costs in todays day and age make it far less appealing for guys to do pin and bushing turns, especially on D6 - D1 - there are some dealers still doing D7/D8 but D9-D11 I’d say have more appeal to do a pin and bushing turn just because the cost of the undercarriage is substantially higher compared to the smaller tractors so it makes more sense. Good luck with all the pressing!!
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Another great video Squatch. I would say the press cat had was massive. You have to give yourself a pat on the back for how well your press is working. Thansk for the video Squatch we appreciate the hard work you put into them. Cheers
Glad to see you addressing the heating and cooling parts for installation debate, I'm satisfied with your reasoning there Squatch, makes perfect sense. 👍
I learned how to use a lathe 50 years ago in highschool, and I haven't touched one since. You sure make that shit look easy.
A continuous chip is not what you want on a lathe A chip breaker insert is a safer way to run and the chips take up much less space in the scrap bin. I run a machine shop and I forbid the practice from my guys. Cheers and I enjoy your channel very much.
Great video 👍 If a press fit is needed would re metalling powdered spraying the pins in batch's provide the means to use original pin's .
Gday Squatch, thank you very much for sharing these videos of your journey on your Cat Crawler, I look forward to every episode. I don’t have or own a Cat Crawler but I do own a pair of Cletrac’s models DD & DDH , anyway keep up the awesome work . Cheers for now Ray from Down Under, Australia.
He's getting so good at the cinematic aspects of shooting video.
Terrific piece of backyard engineering! Carefull prep and measuring really paid off here. Congratulations!
As a scientist, I appreciate the methodological way that you use. Very fine work.
We still have D5 and bigger tracks pin and bushings turned. Well worth the cost. Undercarriage is massive expense. Our largest dozer is a D8N and we just picked up a D7E. All were I work, not personally owned. Our Cat dealer does the track work. We do the rest.
Excellent shade tree mechanic in the best sense of the phrase. Supporting machinery a big plus.
Great tooling, lovely work. Looking forward to a chain assembly timelapse! Going to look so good with those big pads on.
back on track I see...😂😂😂
Even people from Moscow are watching you. A huge hello to you!
There also another reason to avoid using heat/cool fitting. Metal, regardless of its production methods, has an internal structure that can be permanently altered with the application of heat. A worst case scenario would be that something became hardened but not tempered. This leaves a piece of metal that is brittle and prone to shattering.
I would imagine that the press CAT had was probably absolutely massive. I mean they would have been doing D2s through D8s and D9s. Not sure if they used the same machine for all of them, but I would assume they tried to at least use one machine for most to be efficient. Would have been so cool to see. I think I was born in the wrong time period lol!
@@squatch253 Had different dies for different track rails and the bolt tightening part you had power up and down to adjust it! Also a rail guide to the press, ours was elevated with a angled ramp to get them up to the guide and a wench to pull the rails up on it and to the press! Thia one he built is doing a great job, keep it up!
Your explanation of the detail of work that goes into turning pins and bushings shows how much work really goes into assembling of a set of tracks. This is no no small job! Plus is dangerous to boot!
I love watching your thought process come together in a tool that works.
Great video!!I am just an average shade tree mechanic that works on daily driver junk. I still enjoy learning about all the stuff you do!! Very impressive video!!
Just sold my factory and retired but I had go/no go gauges for various subassemblies and finished high volume coils. Worked great if wingnut employees would use them. Putting together a small welding/fab shop to play with in my retirement. The day I need an employee will be the day the wife is supposed to take me out into the woods and put lead in my head. I will never in my life have another employee. Just not worth it.Right now my tools aren't disappearing, I'm not spending hours or days fixing someone else's screw up,and stress is reduced 99.5%. You look to be having an absolutely wonderful time doing what you love after working for the man. Hope your finances stay strong so you can continue to do so my friend. If you need to earn think about a mechanic shop: you will excel at it with your previous experience and Lord knows honest mechanics are few and far between.
Your prep, tooling, standards and such are as interesting as the actual assembly, probably more. We can watch heat-and-beat or flame wrench work on a dozen other channels.
We Learn from People like You !!! 👍 Thanks for Sharing !!!
So much work goes on behind the scenes, thank you for your dedication to detail! Also, hope you don't get into trouble for swiping that cookie sheet!! ;)
First off hope you and your family have a great Thanksgiving second awesome video. I truly admire the way you and your dad look at tasks and make sure things are safe and the out come is as rite as possible.
You guys are a rare breed nowadays
When you were talking about pin and bushing turns and them becoming a thing of the past not only due to labor costs, cheep aftermarket chains but also with the invention of the rotating bushing on chains. It will wear all the way around instead of just 2 sides
Anyway keep up the great work I look forward to seeing the progress and preservation of your fleet
The track winder is also used when welding grouser replacement wear strips on the worn pads! Did that with two people, one on the one side one on the other to weld front half when it went over the top and level on the other side weld the other side of strip! Made it a lot faster!
The Cat pressgear these days will be 100 or 150 tons. For SALT/HD tracks, a pin/bushing turn makes sense above D6 level, if you have a dealer worth a dang (i.e., the Houston-area dealer will botch any turn at any size, so don't go that route- I know, I worked for them and our internal rework was astronomical)
For quite a while there, Cat was pushing SystemONE real hard. The bushings turn in use, and they claimed they'd last a lot longer. Not so much in my experience.
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This is so cool too see how this works 😀👋👍
0:29 i find this kind of funny, because i was looking through old catalogs of pre-Cat tracked equipment and in one section, they detail the factory work. One of the pictures is a chap sitting by a massive lathe, like bigger than a regular big one and by him, a big human neck sized long snake curled chip going for meters and meters. They were hardcore back then.
Happy thanksgiving to all your family 👍 and thank you for again sharing your knowledge and engineering skills 👌 look forward to the track rebuild 👍
Good to know there is another man who knows not to heat it first. As you've said the real feel is with room temperature parts, clarification; room temp is all parts kept together at the same place[ shed, garage or heated workshop] Same, same, ...same good video as usual thanks Toby.
Are you going to weld up the rails? The hard part is holding it up once you get it half way together. That's why that dealer put in a pit. Your doing great, watch your fingers.
@@squatch253 I missed that thanks.
Now that is a field expedient trash compactor (2 x 4)
That's a lot of tooling that goes into repairing the tracks but it sure makes for excellent video . The press fit is the only way to completely lock the pins and bushings together that was figured out in the factory and that is how you repair them. Keep up the great videos
What a fantastic learning process . I think might have to look into this to do a TD 5 as there appears nothing available for one . But will have to add some welding .. love your work . Thanks from the land down under
Thank you for the explanation and the vintage articles and illustrations. You addressed my question about whether Cat dealers did press track pins on and off as part of the routine service offered to their customers. It's also clear that a lot of ingenuity was being applied by dealers and their employees to make pressing track pins off and on safer and more efficient. What I find surprising is that Cat apparently did not have one or more models of factory-engineered high efficiency track press available for sale to its dealers.
Very well thought out process to get the job done right.
I'm sure appreciating all this effort Toby. I've got an IH T-6 I'm going to be restoring and it needs major track repair. It was kinda my white whale, found it 25+ years ago and couldn't get it bought. About 4 years ago found it in a buddy's shed and finally got it bought. Like this D2 it is getting the full treatment with a slight engine upgrade. Original engine was gone so it's justifiable.
Great work
Aesthetically, hot steel fresh off the lathe is a really beautiful deep metallic blue . . . I've never found a paint to replicate it - model wise.
The track press gets more usable with the new modes, wow the press has a lot of time and thought invested. Great video as always!!!
Early fix of machining on a Friday night for me, usually I watch Cutting Edge Engineering in Aus for that fix but Squatch is in first lol.
I'm sure you know that channel Squatch but if you don't I'm sure you'll enjoy it😁
Labor of love,,,easy explanation of why your doing this.
I had to Google to check - but yes Repetitious is a word! 😂😂
I enjoy your fine attention to the details on any job. There used to be a sign on the wall where I worked that said "If you don't have time to do the job right, when will you have time to do it over?" I think most places, especially in the repair industry, don't really subscribe to that line of thinking.
Hey Squatch, I have been watching your work for a long time. Your abilities never cease to amaze me! I know you are safety conscious and I want you to please tuck the hoodie string in when running that lathe. I appreciate you and God Bless.
You're a pretty handy guy. You should build yourself a turbo encabulator. It would make your life so much easier.
Lots of RUclips videos about them.
Squatch253 tool making abilities are something else... Squatch253. Through the winter time, could you please explain and demonstrate "Face Harding" I never had the chance to work with steel/metals.........Rick. Canonsburg, PA.
First Class work all the way with the Mighty Squatch253, great, please, don't ever stop making these videos..
Pin and bushing turning is still done on tractors today for modern tracks
More tools to be added to the Squatch Special Tools D2 Track Chain Service Kit!
I just noticed the wet stacking on your garage door. I figured that would have already driven you nuts! Another great video :)
I’ve been noticing that also and thinking the same thing and also came close to commenting about it.
GREAT planning as usual.
Another presenter was talking about firearms manufacturing and he noted that in the old days labor was cheap and materials were expensive. Nowadays the opposite is true.
That's why modern firearms look like the do. They are designed to be made with minimum set ups on a CNC machine.
Terrific cant wait to see the press in action again love this stuff.
Thanks for sharing buddy you are definitely getting a workout on this job with everything you are doing hope you and your family have a great thanksgiving
Plus if you heat something it could bend , twist or not shrink back to the original size that maybe what happened to that one you showed us , and the temper could be drawn out and it get brittle and crack.
Interesting video, with all the background info! I wonder if the operator in the 12 X 12 Cat press machine had protection from flying parts during a mishap, or if this was still in the "Good luck to ya" days.
Awesome
You are a very talented man.
Very knowledgeable and very informative!
Yep I remember when my dad took the tracks off his D2 and had the pins and bushings turned in fact I think he had new pins and bushings put in as a bushings were war all the way through this work was done by the cat dealer in Lowell Indiana
You are amazingly intelligent and hard working.
Thank you...happy Thanksgiving
Stunning job Tobie
Happy T day to you and your folks.........................................
This is a pressing issue, but u've got it sorted. Gr8 video. Thanks
Glad to see you doing some pressing. When you took the track apart, was it de-pressing?
I can see why Toby went all the way to make sure the pin and pushing turning is done right. Now imagine one or more of the track links is pushed in crooked? It's the same as with making a new wooden bed for a truck. If one thing is crooked everything will run crooked or look odd or off center. So prep work here is very important. The old tools of the past where actually very reliable but they where also very expensive back in the day. Maybe that is the reason they have outlasted there younger analogs? Who knows.
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great video thanks for your time
New VS turn the bush... We see that C&C, where Clint puts a new undercarriage under a good tractor.. The fresh parts are now so close in price to gaining 1/2 more life for a working dozer/tractor, plus, new is a huge selling point when reselling into a working world, as compared to collector world, where originality is more important, and labor is hobby effort.
Thank you for posting
Does your mom know you have her cookie sheet in the shop. Haha
And to think it used to catch chocolate chips!
Yes, I think you will want to harden your adaptors. However, does the recess in them especially the pin adapter might need to be a little larger and/ or a slight taper or bevel it help or align it or fit it? Video clip 6:40, you can see it jump into the recessed pocket. Just food for thought. I have a habit a times of getting things so tight and exacting that I spend way to much time getting there, and getting a final end production unit because I tried to be too nit picky.
Heat and chill works great for large newly machined items like flywheels, and ring gears but I would agree with you say saying not on used pieces.
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So the small Chinese lathe is good enough - besides being placed in a warm workshop - that you don't need to use the big ole lathe in the other shop?
Would adding weld to the bore of worn out tracks, then machining them back to spec be viable? Great videos, always looking forward to the next to come out.
As Indiana Jones said, "We're making this up as we go."
Genius.
We have a 4u with a broke fuel range gauge can u still get them and what pressures is it indicating we haven't got main engine started yet
Hi Toby, I can well imagine that you do not want to be offering a 'turn pin' service to other rebuilders. Maybe you could consider loaning the press set ups out? You would need a signed confirmation (lawyer drawn up?) that the use was all entirely down to the new operators risk - as you have pointed out it is fraught with danger for the inexperienced - and I think some contribution to a good cause would also not go amiss. Hmm, probably not my best idea ever! Maybe you would like to say a few words on camera about it?
I wouldn’t think there would be a time advantage either to freezing and heating vs pressing.