Recent content by PHPaul

I have a Bambu Lab A1 which is my second printer. $400-ish so relatively affordable. It includes access to Bambu's slicer (more on that in a minute) and I use TinkerCAD for 3D design. It's free for home use and reasonably powerful. Now for the bad news: Both Bambu's slicer and TinkerCAD...

Some of the best advice I've ever received: "Leave it in 2WD until you get stuck, then put it in 4WD and go home."

If you're talking about the pin/button you push down to get the PTO shaft to slip onto the gearbox splines, then no. It should pop up when the PTO shaft is pushed all the way on. It rides in the groove in the splined shaft on the gearbox and is what keeps the PTO shaft connected to the gearbox.

^^^I tagged that with a "haha" icon, but it's more true than funny...:cautious:

Loctite 545 is the answer. Not cheap, but it works.

Yeah, I figured that out, thanks. Waiting until the next Amazon billing cycle to order one, this month has been expensive...

Yup, looked there. I'd prefer one that opens for a few seconds when the compressor starts, not really looking for a timer as the compressor spends most of it's time turned off.

@dlsmith Can you provide details/source for that auto drain? Thanks.

I grew up in the 50's and 60's. In 1968 I was a Senior in High School. It was getting towards the end of the school year and graduation. In a fit of derring-do, I decided to skip school after lunch. I'd NEVER done such a thing before. I was walking around town doing this and that, waiting...

That's why I built mine. Not as flexible or nicely finished, but even with the new gearbox and the bearings and belts I had to buy, it's about 1/10th the cost of a commercial unit.

We had a wood stove, wonderful heat, enjoyed doing the work of processing fuel from tree length. Bit of a mess but worth it. Distributing the heat was something of an issue, hot in the living room, cool on the other end of the house but cut WAY down on the oil bill. Stove got old, warped and...

If I hit the Lotto, I'd build one with hydraulic motor drive and a hinge and cylinder arrangement that would allow me to drop the cutter head down over the bank further ─\ The swing-away would be nice but at the speeds I'm moving, not critical. Fortunately, the hydraulic tilt cylinder on the...

How often they need to be changed depends on how often I get them tangled up in fences, rocks or brush. I can do several hundred feet of ditch bank on one set. If I'm careful (and lucky...) I can do all the fence line on 2 or 3 sets. Being New England, the fence line is where rocks go. :D...

Thank you. I built the original about 10 years ago, and the Mark II about 4 years ago. Main changes were a better belt tensioning system and the new right-angle gearbox. The original was a re-purposed Gravely unit that had to be installed upside-down which put all the oil in the wrong end and...