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Has any body strightened a radius rod. Part 2

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old

02-06-2006 13:25:49

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Well the way I did it was to use my 12 ton pipe bender and just layed it in the bender upside down. So instead of bending it move I was taking the bend out. It did crack in 2 places but a little grinding and a little welding and it looks almost as it should have been when new. I had the front end off the tractor any how so it was easy to remove from the front axle.

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BillM (OH)

02-06-2006 19:23:36

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Re: Has any body strightened a radius rod. Part 2 in reply to old, 02-06-2006 13:25:49

I straightened mine pretty well using the jack and chain trick - don't have a press. Musta worked - no more broken crabcap nipples!

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Willy-N

02-06-2006 16:34:39

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Re: Has any body strightened a radius rod. Part 2 in reply to old, 02-06-2006 13:25:49

I have straitened a few but it is hard to get them perfect looking again if there bad. On the Drag Link subject again. These are original ones I have removed the way I was talking about. Notice how nice the leather is. If you use a pickle fork to remove them I don't know how you can keep from messing it up. You realy do not need to hit the arm that hard to pop them out. Mark H.

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gahorN

02-06-2006 20:39:33

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Re: Has any body strightened a radius rod. Part 2 in reply to Willy-N, 02-06-2006 16:34:39

Old,... My 9N has the early style cast radius rods, and they were both bent inwards like someone had run 'em up against a tree or somthing.
I took them off and put them on the hydraulic shop press (I've got a 20 ton press) and rested the radius rods on the press plates as far apart as possible, and with the ram in the center of the bend (and using a piece of wood to prevent marring and slippng) simply pressed it down till it was straight. It worked perfectly with no effort at all. The same trick could probably be worked by using a bottle jack, a couple of 2x4's and placing it all under a heavy vehicle (like a large truck) and with the rod ends on the 2x4's and the jack sitting on the middle of the rod, simply attempt to jack up the truck with the jack. I straightened a heavy steel bumper that way before my wife went out of town long enough for me to sneak a new hydraulic press into the shop.
I wouldn't do it on a freezing day, though. Those rods might get brittle if it was really cold.

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Bob Harvey

02-06-2006 21:35:52

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Re: Has any body strightened a radius rod. Part 2 in reply to gahorN, 02-06-2006 20:39:33

Did you use any heat 'after the fact' to relieve any of the created stresses? You could have a problem. During most of these type of operations it is a good idea to apply some heat - a propane soldering torch will help. After re-forming ANY iron, steel or cast, it is a good practise to heat the unit slowly to -not red- but damn hot, let let it cool slowly. Annealing is the process, ask your local Blacksmith / welder dude.

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