Vintage Windmill and Wind Generator Forum

Happy birthday Thomas. Hope you're doing well.
-RP

I have zero experience with this particular part, but usually, you would only case harden something if you needed a wear resistant surface on a lower grade steel. The alternative would be to just use a better steel. If it were me, I'd probably use either 4140 or stressproof (1144), the later because ...

Happy Birthday Mike.

Looks to me like those two pillow block bearings that support the main shaft bolt to the base plate between the gear box and the pump rod. Then a chain goes from sprocket to sprocket. The gearbox must convert rotary motion to reciprocating motion and the tail bone bolts to that 'C' shaped bracket.

I imagine it would be like doing auto body repair, you'd just have to make sure you got all the galvanizing off of the weld area. The weld won't stick otherwise and vaporized zinc makes fumes you don't want to breath. Like with autobody, you'd use mig and put a dot at a time in different locations ...

Sorry to hear Wayne, but just think how great things will be once you get past this. You know the old saying...if you eat a live toad for breakfast, chances are nothing worse will happen to you all day.

-RP

Thanks Wayne. I'll have to add it to the list.

-RP

These are from the last day.

-RP

Some more from Terry's on the second day.

I finally got around to getting some of my pictures together from the Trade Fair. These are from Terry's on the second day.
Hope you like 'em.

-RP