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    Is there an idiot's guide to quick change styles?

    Thanks guys! So the pin grabber style is the Cat's ass, but the most expensive and adapting it to my machine that already has a good working PSM thumb would throw off the thumb alignment- Probably doesn't make sense for an old machine like this. The TAG style coupler looks like it would be a...
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    Play in swing frame, Cat305 E2, 1700hrs

    I remachined one of these from a 305 and made a new, oversized, hardened 4140 pin to fit. This was a big job on my boring mill and really made me scratch my head why Cat built them this way. Not a great design, very cost intensive to fix.
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    Is there an idiot's guide to quick change styles?

    I've only used the old pound the pins in and out style on a 40 series machine. Owning a machine shop, I've made and modified all kinds of bucket/attachment ears for customers, but I don't have much of an understanding of the different systems. I've never been involved in the "using it" part of...
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    Komatsu PC95-1 track power way down

    Did I do a poor job writing out my questions or did I put this in the wrong area?
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    Komatsu PC95-1 track power way down

    I just bought a 1995 PC95-1 to fix up and keep for awhile for use around my house/shop. I have some time on an older 40 class machine, but this is the first excavator I have owned and hopefully a big step up from that old one. I have inspected the machine, but don't have the machine home yet...
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