It's certainly satisfying to make your own tools to meet your particular needs, isn't it? Even simple things can be difficult to find, and are often made quickly and more sturdily from scrap pieces that would otherwise be thrown away. However, the down side of using scrap pieces is that metal quality can be very variable--while you'd like to assume a steering assembly would be made from good material, it's also quite possible the reason it split was that the metal was inferior or it was an alloy needing special treatment in order to be re-worked. I've had rebar (which is often less than excellent metal) split, snap, flake, and otherwise fail on me even when properly heated and incorporating modest bends and draws. It's also possible you got the metal TOO hot--a white (welding) heat held for too long will begin to burn off carbon, causing brittleness and loss of strength. You'll see the metal begin to glow and spark if you get to that point, just like the cut from an acetylene torch.
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Today's Featured Article - Hydraulics - Cylinder Anatomy - by Curtis von Fange. Let’s make one more addition to our series on hydraulics. I’ve noticed a few questions in the comment section that could pertain to hydraulic cylinders so I thought we could take a short look at this real workhorse of the circuit. Cylinders are the reason for the hydraulic circuit. They take the fluid power delivered from the pump and magically change it into mechanical power. There are many types of cylinders that one might run across on a farm scenario. Each one could take a chapter in
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