Posted by ericlb on January 16, 2012 at 06:57:45 from (72.173.192.59):
In Reply to: bantam excavator posted by darrin brown on January 15, 2012 at 20:54:47:
bantam was a reasonably popular brand years ago, which means there are units out there sitting in dead rows in places like gravel pits and open pit mines ect, most of the powertrain stuff, engine, hydraulic unit ect will be a componet brand, ie if its a diesel it will probably be a detroit, gasser, it may have a wakasha, buda ect which still have some parts availability thru a good parts man, ie some older gent who knows his parts books, and knows there is life outside a computer, the hard stuff will be the bantam exclusive pieces, those can be either made,or rebuilt in a good welding / machine shop, or if you do buy it,treat it like a old tractor project, keep an eye pealed for another one sitting somewhere which could be obtained for a parts unit, going to have to kind of be agressive with that approach though these days with people scrapping everything from old rusty junk to running tractors in their greed for money now, nevermind that somebody in our hobby could use it and would pay more than scrap price to get it
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