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Finishing the Case 580C Backhoe - Sort of...

🕑 Added 2024-07-27 15:32:58 +0000 UTC

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Michael S Wilhelm

That was (as usual) above and beyond.

John Lottes

Whoever owns that BH has far too much money. I do hope you're charging them for your machine time. They could probably have gotten a decent used BH for less than the repairs cost. I understand the whole fix it up, wear it out and reuse it until it's dead, but in this case lock-n-load.

Nicholas Hansford

Oh yeah, I'm sure it's a different internals. I just found it interesting it was the same power reverser with a 4 speed behind it layout.

Watch Wes Work

Ouch! I think the shuttles may have been made by someone else.

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We have a fixed wing operator as well. From my uneducated view, the big advantage of the helicopters is they can land on the road and refill and refuel anywhere without having to return to the hanger. They actually have special trailers with tanks and a pad on top they can land on.

Sku

The hydraulic pump high vs low pressure seals was such a nice touch, I have wondered about that a few times now with my equipment, thank you for taking the time to draw out the details and explain it to us. You rock!

CapnMac82

Not so much the spray rig (which usually wants a dedicated machine to run) and are pretty expensive, but the cost of all the State Certifications needed to buy, store, and use the various spray chemicals. The money logic of aerial spraying is pretty obvious from the view of a farmer unwilling to buy mufflers for their Pete 350. My "boggle" was on the equipment used. Fixed-wing a/c/ are around 2-5 maintenance hours per flight hour; rotary wing are 10-12:1

Greg

We do use a jig on the surface grinder to make the primary cutting edge, we grind the relief and thin the web by hand for the cnc.

Nicholas Hansford

Ahhhh old backhoes, they certainly don't get easier to maintain as they age. My Ford 4500 decided that rotation for the motor was no longer an option last week. So now I get to figure out why a fresh motor (~100 hrs) likely spun a rod bearing. I guess only have myself to blame since I rebuilt the motor and the power reverser. Interesting too see Case was doing similar things with power reversers to Ford. Those units are pretty stout, until they aren't.

Blane Gardner

Wes is not a Technician. Wes is a MECHANIC. Blane Gardner (Technician): Son of MECHANIC, Brother of MECHANIC

Andrew Burton

The bottom drawer for me would be the "I'm in too much of a hurry, and I've got another one" resting place for drill bits that I should sharpen later, but for some reason never get round to doing...... ;-)

Sam Ellison

I’m just a back yard fixer but I am also cheap. I figured out how to hand sharpen drill bits years ago. I thought I was a hack but they usually cut better than new so I must be doing something right. 😁

Arnold Boyd

I saw that same outfit spraying off of RT 64 by Oregon last week.

Watch Wes Work

I don't know why they crop dust beans at all. They never get more than about 4 feet tall. They can easily drive through that with a mechanical sprayer.

CapnMac82

Cool cabinet tour. I'm still a touch stumped on how they work the business case out for crop dusting with a helo given the ration of maintenance hours to flight hours, especially as most of those schedules often have a "while still warm" instruction on their procedures. That, and crop dusting is not low-stress flight hours, either. I guess those Robinsons have found a niche, though.

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I think there are plenty on YouTube that are better than I could do.

Bill Scott

Another great “how it works” tutorial. I learn something new every time I watch your videos.

James Riordan

Fantastic- wrenching…fabbing…Team Hufflepuff (spelling)…and a $300 plastic POS pick up, all capped by a tour of the “cabinet”. I feel your pain on the cost side - I have “good” drill bits for precision work (fractional, letter, number, and metric), “meh” drill bits for “just send it” and Dewalts for the Milwaukee cordless, fractional only. There’s something satisfying about smoking a crap drill bit by leaning into it like prom night

Jeff Chandler

I was kind of hoping for a drill bit sharpening tutorial, but certainly not complaining. I’m a big fan and appreciate all of your videos. Thank you sir!

Terry Lawrence

Ever notice how digging machines always run just good enough to do that last job and never good enough to dig it's final resting place? They stay above the ground, waiting patiently for a kindly machine lover to rescue them.

Virtue Streams

For sure, but it should last for decades.

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I guess they ran out of numbers. I really don't know. But they exist and sometimes you need them, especially for tapping.

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Boy they are pricey though.

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I still have a few. I break a lot of ratchets. The GearWrench ones I can get repairs parts or replacements the local Car Quest.

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LMAO!

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I do try!

Crashing

So what is a letter size bit?

Patrick Filion

I have a 20 year old set of drill bits that is probably the carbon copy of yours except that it’s made by Dormer. It sits right beside my 20 year old Starrett drill sharpening gauge. Fancy that ;).

Virtue Streams

Ding dong, the backhoe’s gone…time to celebrate! What an impressive collection of bits and such—wow! Steamer are easy to find; I used to prefer the type one can utilize dry detergents for heavy grime removal.

Peter Church

Every fluid from every orifice.... yea have had a few days like that. Those days suck lol.

Eric Corse

Well done on that backhoe valve , that looks like it was fun and satisfying. That cabinet is perfect for that. I finally bought some Huot cabinets for taps, drills etc. I assume that water heater for the cleaner is similar to oil fired domestic hot water heater, there must be a spray nozzle for that, there is much else to go wrong.. Did you you retire your Proto ratchets?

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I don't know.

Adrian Gadd

Does that steam cleaner have a photo cell like a torpedo heater?

Mike

good work teacher/mechanic/business owner/resident/father !!!!!

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We used to send our carbide drills out to be resharpened. In some cases we also had them recoated. It was about 1/3 the cost of new. My hand grinding isn't quite good enough for a CNC machine, but it's fine for hand drilling.

Conner Wright

Your backhoe policy is similar to my meatloaf policy. Once a year.

Curtis Roberts

I love picture pages time when you bring out the diagrams and the homemade drawings. They are incredibly well done and I know I'm about to learn something great. Your ability to put a easy to understand drawing together and make a difficult factory diagram readable is impressive. You're a gifted educator. Great work on repairing that linkage as well.

Lee Ludden

Great job getting that linkage working so smoothly. I bet it really feels great to get one of those albatross jobs out of the shop. I've never learned the art of drill sharpening, but I've gotten pretty handy with my Drill Doctor. Sharp bits sure make the job easier.

Greg

Do you get any poof of smoke / smell of fuel at all when you kick it on and then it dies or nothing at all? Those furnace guns usually have a sort of sensor or cathode eye that senses fire (light), quick search says its called a cad cell or in really old stuff a stack sensor.. if its the cathode eye type, maybe just dirty, so if you don't get fire shortly after the burner kicks on it shuts down the gun. I'd start there if you have good ignition and fuel spray out of the nozzle when it first tries to light. If you don't get anything at all the thing has something like a pressure stat or thermister that tells the burner when you are up to temp / not spraying to avoid flashing off the water and dry firing it or causing a steam explosion. I would try jumping out the control circuit to provide power directly to the gun assembly to see if I get fire, then work the interlocks back from there. And you are 100% spot on about sharpening drill bits, lots of people have no idea what they are doing there, its not complicated and there are lots of great videos and explanations of how to do it.. We even sharpen the drills we use in our VMC for certain things, and for us its Dormer, they are phenomenal, but its getting hard to get them.

Tom Hollowell

Scanning cost and accuracy seems well below the current 3d printer capability. I used to buy tiny printed parts for HO scale slot cars from Shapeways that someone else had designed. They were amazing. My problem is I do not know how to do CAD and am too intimidated to try :-) So I was always hoping for advancements in inexpensive scanning.

Ian McKay

As dozerman53111 : said, never knew a backhoe that didn't leak. Me too in UK.

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In this case the only real precision needed is for the neck with the O-ring. Everything else could be off 1/4" and not really hurt anything.

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One time I helped rebuild a CNC lathe and right after install it started leaking. I was feeling bad until the customer showed me a picture of the machine on the factory floor in Japan. Underneath were several oil drip pans...

BitterCynic

I just looked at 3D scanners while considering my options for a new printer, Creality offers one in a bundle. Problem is they aren't very good for small parts or very fine detail.

John Crane

I had dropped the channel, but your gear pump shaft seal explanation brought me back.

Dr. Internet

Thanks, Wes. Good show. Fixing that thing is not a job or a project, it's a career.

Tom Hollowell

I wonder how long it will be until it will be easy to scan and print plastic parts like the oil pickup. With the screen it’s not really possible today, but I am guessing in the not too distant future you will be able go get made to order plastic parts printed on demand. The question is will the OEM have the parts design copyrighted.

dozerman53111

I'm 73 years young, worked industrial jobs all my life. I don't remember a backhoe that didn't leak from somewhere. I think they are born that way !

Noah

Looks great Wes! Just bought a 1966 MF 20 a bit ago from a small town up North. You just showed me what my spring project will look like.

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It took a few tries.

TheOnespeedbiker

The fact you were able to put (and center) the lever holder (or what ever you call it) in the lathe chuck was amazing 😍

Jon Schroeder

Now that is some tasty fluff Wes. I'm a big CEE fan, but I'll take diagrams, drill bits, and gripes about loud trucks over dogs and birds any day of the week... Excellent video! Keep the fluff coming!!!

Kowyn Hibbert (Warrior of the Rusty Wrench)

Father-in-law just picked up a Massey Ferguson 765 backhoe, I wasn't available to go with him and he's not a mechanic, I saw it this week and I foresee myself being very busy at some point.