Posted by 07AKU on December 14, 2020 at 21:29:35 from (118.209.76.165):
So I recently ordered some wheel bolts for my Massey 40 steering wheels and was told they are "not in the best condition" I pulled the trigger as they are pretty rare to find here and I had been looking for a couple years for these.
Unfortunately I cant seem to post images from my computer but to describe issue:
The shanks are rusted badly, in places over 40% of the shank thickness is missing and cratered due to what I can assume is a lifetime of abuse and all the threads need working over with a button die before a nut is likely to ever go on them.
One of the bolts looks as if it has been snapped and got a farmer in the field job to fix it.
I can weld up the shanks, turn them back down to diameter, work over the threads but the question is:
Is this safe? are parts for machines of this age (late 70s) always that bad? (the same bolts out of my machine are totally free of rust, pitting or thread damage I just wish I had them all)
And if these parts are trash, is it common for tractor wreckers to sell Iron Oxide to customers and call them parts?
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