skyking1
Senior Member
that hole is never very good on the minis.
All it takes is money--people will do anything for the right amount of money.Still blows my mind though that normal folk will knowingly burn people like that.
I have these, though - that photo of the pin through the stick is how it was running - no bushings left.. bone dry...
All things considered, the rest of the stick/boom is as expected for the hours and the turntable is surprisingly tight... But that bucket end... Yeah it's a mess.
That's a very popular scam. Here's one I thought was a scam but the kid was real. Kid makes an offer on an old Oshkosh we had without asking any questions. I told him he's a scam and go away. No he was real and just wanted that model Oshkosh. We get paid and he sends out the trucker "Crazy Charlie". He was crazy alright. Said he can't haul the truck because it has stone in the back and it's overweight. I told him if I get it weighed and it's ok will you haul it? He agrees we get it weighed and he then throws a fit and says stone has to go. We remove most of the stone in the pouring rain and he leaves. I warn the kid he's nuts.I got an text asking if it was available. When I said yes I got a cashier's check in the mail for $3k over asking under the condition I would pay the transportation company to ship it from my location on the west coast to the east coast.
I've got two stock bushings -- they are the same OD as that black plastic piece and there's an awfully large amount of daylight around them. I'm getting more okay with the idea of welding buildup and boring it down versus an oversize bore with a sleeve... the latter as you've said is another step.... with more tolerances to hit.. No guarantee too that the sleeves wont pound out/separate over time anyway...Lots of ifs here:
1) If you can lay your hands on a stock bushing, then go that way
2)^ If there is enough meat in the stick for it.
3) If not, weld it up and bore it to factory. Making bushings is another step.
Keep grease in it and whatever you do will be fine.
He must have come from the midwest-that's where the term is used regularly. But I must sayI was told to pound sand, noting it was my responsibility and all that..
I would say it all depends on how you are planning on doing the welding. A wire feeder off the boring setup to get some nice circular beads would be ideal. If you only have the option weld the bore up by hand then a sleeve would be probably be a better solution. If you can get hold of some liquid nitrogen the sleeve could probably be shrunk by about 3 thousandths per inch of outside diameter which would allow you to slide it straight in when it's cold but would hold it in pretty tight once it warmed up.should probably start a new thread on this... but what's people's take on welding build-up and line boring to the factory diameter vs line boring and sleeving to get to factory?
My backround is quite diverse.KSSS, where did you school yourself on the ins and outs of assault???