Recent content by Chanceywd

I struggle with warping when i weld. the backhoe bucket i just made i was able to get the one set of ears to stay straight but it took buying some long hitch pins to align the holes, making spacers, and a lot of clamps. Many times depending on what it is I will cut at the middle of a bend or...

One more old and lazy idea I have, I think about making a carousel platform for my attachments. I figure with the SSQA done it would work. I have this thought of a front hub from a 3/4 ton truck mounted to a concrete anchor in the ground. Then a steel wheel would allow arms attached to it like...

Man I know that too many projects thing too! I am no Thomas Edison or John Browning by any stretch( my mental heroes), But if I get a thought about one of the projects I have to see if it will work even if I spend the day accomplishing a failure. In reading your project on the SSQA you built a...

Thanks RWS, Bill

Thanks, I teed the 3rd function output lines and have a pair at the back. 2 -1/4 hoses hook in there and then I paralleled the switches and using a round style trailer light plug to connect them to push buttons on my backhoe knobs. My son made me some with his 3d printer. I figure I don't use...

So is that the ebay valve you linked or the surplus center one? I'm ready to order one! I am thinking if I put one on I would have that turned on by a momentary switch so I couldn't screw up and leave it in the wrong position.

I am working on a project adding a 12'x40' lean to addition to my shop/garage for firewood storage. In retrospect I should have done more grade work first but it is what it is. In leveling the ground inside I felt I needed a wider toothless bucket. I could have bought one from BXpanded but I...

Yes to the collars as spacers. I did however earlier before applying hydraulics ground about a quarter of an inch off the rod end where it would be hitting the quick attach . That was to get as much stroke used as possible. I figured there was plenty of meat there between the outer part and the...

I added 2, 5/8 double split shaft collars to the rod end right against the attaching weld for the ball swivel and no more push or pull on the frame It could use flow restriction. I have a muffler clamp holding my extender in line until the cylinder size collars come. Tried it on my bucket, forks...

Quick important update to my attempt. I hooked it up to my 3rd function to try and it needs some more work. The 8" stroke is close but you can see it stress the whole latch area. Definitely even a fraction of an inch with that small cylinder needs to be addressed. You definitely don't want to...

Made some progress on mounting that cylinder yesterday. All except what to grind on the rod end. I will take some couple pictures and post them when I get a minute. I did find that cylinder eye is 1" thru so I picked up a couple M12-1.25 x 45 bolts so a little more thread is going into the...

I do all my own auto repair work. I put up a shop 23 years ago with a lift. One of the best investments I ever made was the lift. My 2006 Silverado 2500hd started making the front brakes shaking back thru the steering trick this spring. It has about 240k on it and I had done pads and rotors last...

Bad news to report on my cylinder choice. The swivel end is about 1" from edge to bolt center. The distance on the existing area where I installed the linear actuator with the hemi ends is about 3/4". So some grinding on the end or the SSQA is going to be required or an adaption of some sort on...

I got that cylinder yesterday. I have an idea to make an extension for it. The OD for the cylinder is 1-3/8 according to their drawing. I ordered a couple double split shaft collars My idea is to make the extension mount at the swivel and go past then use a shaft collar and weld to that to keep...

Hey Coach Scissors, can I come over to your hydraulic team? I put together my new waterproof linear actuator and it is painfully slow. I'm trying to do this from my phone which is also painfully slow for me. My internet is down for the second day but it was working for a while last night and...