Line boring

[Hjwise]

Has anyone had a telehandler main pivot line bored & welded in the east of England. If so, who by and what is a rough cost?

Thanks

 

[Speedstar]

Has anyone had a telehandler main pivot line bored & welded in the east of England. If so, who by and what is a rough cost?

Thanks

We had a JCb done think it cost about 3K by the time you took the boom off etc

 

[Hjwise]

Ouch…. Probably not worth it on an 8000 hour Merlo.

 

[Courier]

You could do worse than ask for some advice from these guys

https://usedtelehandler.co.uk/

 

[Abacus]

A friend of mine is going to have his 310 done I think he was tacking around 7to800

 

[vantage]

Ouch…. Probably not worth it on an 8000 hour Merlo.

Where’s @Thick Farmer when you need him, I’m sure @ACEngineering would approve!

 

[davidroberts30]

80 to 100 a hole round here

 

[Hilly]

I keep looking at mine and I reckon I can do it with a mag drill, no need for line boring .

 

[Hjwise]

80 to 100 a hole round here

That sounds more it. Worth doing at that price.

 

[davidroberts30]

I keep looking at mine and I reckon I can do it with a mag drill, no need for line boring .

Probably could
Weld a thick plate on for the drill then tack a plate over with a correct size pre drilled hole in


Thing with line boring is they set the rig up then turn the hole out then weld it up then turn out to correct oe size

 

[davidroberts30]

That sounds more it. Worth doing at that price.

So a telehandler main boom pin refurb will be about 400 plus new pin and bushes

 

[Hilly]

That sounds

Probably could
Weld a thick plate on for the drill then tack a plate over with a correct size pre drilled hole in


Thing with line boring is they set the rig up then turn the hole out then weld it up then turn out to correct oe size

Surely if I had a broach cutter right size weld all the holes up drill em out in the right place jobs a good in ?

 

[davidroberts30]

Surely if I had a broach cutter right size weld all the holes up drill em out in the right place jobs a good in ?

The weld would be hard to drill out but not impossible

 

[Hilly]

The weld would be hard to drill out but not impossible

I’ve drilled welded up holes out many a time with the mag drill , key is hmt cutters not evolution crap and plenty fluid .

 

[davidroberts30]

310 down here needs doing when

I’ve drilled welded up holes out many a time with the mag drill , key is hmt cutters not evolution crap and plenty fluid .

You get it right then

 

[e5c0rt.mk1]

I did the main lift ram holes in the chassis on a manitou last year, cut them out with a 100mm rotabroach and made 2 top hat bushes and welded them in.

 

[ACEngineering]

80 to 100 a hole round here

No way, not for boring out then bore welding and reboring back to standard.

It's best part of a normal working day to turn up onsite to a machine that is preped ready to start setting up the boring tool, do the job, clean up and go home. You wouldnt even get the guy on site for £100 when he has at least 10k of boring gear plus another 5k of bore welding gear. And that's just the bare minimum of gear.

 

[davidroberts30]

No way, not for boring out then bore welding and reboring back to standard.

It's best part of a normal working day to turn up onsite to a machine that is preped ready to start setting up the boring tool, do the job, clean up and go home. You wouldnt even get the guy on site for £100 when he has at least 10k of boring gear plus another 5k of bore welding gear. And that's just the bare minimum of gear.

Can only tell you what I've heard from engineer mate of mine

 

[ACEngineering]

This is the cheap way, not ideal or by any means perfect but it can be done in certain situations.

 

[ACEngineering]

Has anyone had a telehandler main pivot line bored & welded in the east of England. If so, who by and what is a rough cost?

Thanks

How close are you to swindon?

I know a top guy there that does really good job.

The problem with line boring is there are alot of guys having a go but do a crap job!

I had a guy out to do a 541-70 boom and he spent all day at it and buggered it right up was a waste of time, I had to get the guy in from Swindon who kindly put it right.