Simba sl

wuddy

Member

Location

Scottish Borders

• May 31, 2019

• #1

The joys of running an sl!

 

Tompkins

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Location

NE Somerset

• May 31, 2019

• #2

Whereabouts on the frame is that? I had better go and check ours!

 

wuddy

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Location

Scottish Borders

• May 31, 2019

• #3

Tompkins said:

Whereabouts on the frame is that? I had better go and check ours!

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It’s on the rear inside corner of one of the wings (5m machine). The rear pivot point was about 10mm out and obviously has been stressing the frame!

 

tinman

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Location

Ulster

• May 31, 2019

• #4

10mm out of line wuddy, as in if you slid a bar through the three holes the last one would be 10mm out of line?.
could you mount bigger plates on it now that you have the old ones cut off or is there room.
whats the other side like.

 

wuddy

Member

Location

Scottish Borders

• May 31, 2019

• #5

tinman said:

10mm out of line wuddy, as in if you slid a bar through the three holes the last one would be 10mm out of line?.
could you mount bigger plates on it now that you have the old ones cut off or is there room.
whats the other side like.

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Yep got a length of round bar and slid it through two holes and third was way out of line. Put an extra bit of box in and going to plate some of it up. Other side has some small stress marks (paint cracking) going to have a proper look at it once this side is done and see if anything can be done!

 

PSQ

Member

Arable Farmer

• Jun 1, 2019

• #6

Just copy this quality repair, you won’t go wrong:

 

tinman

Member

Location

Ulster

• Jun 1, 2019

• #7

Takes a special kind of person to do something like that.....

 

PSQ

Member

Arable Farmer

• Jun 1, 2019

• #8

tinman said:

Takes a special kind of person to do something like that.....

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That was a repair of a repair on a (failed) repair

Looks a bit better now it’s been cut out, straightened and triangulated:

 

wuddy

Member

Location

Scottish Borders

• Jun 6, 2019

• #9

If the weld doesn’t hold it together hopefully the red oxide will!!