Having that battery boxes are the price of gold, I would like to take a complete one to a metal fab shop and have several made. Would any of you happen to know the dimensions on a battery box, or actually would yall happen to have a good drawing with the dimensions on it?? I would like to have something to give to the shop people so they can make them close to the orginals. I figured something as this is out there somewhere. THANKS>
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erik dekeyser
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All the tractors are different. The cub isnt the same as the super A and its not the same as the 140.
Dave H (MI)
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I am thinking you are wasting your time. Maybe if you had the brake and other tools and could do it yourself. I just put a new battery box on a Cub and after looking at two other manufacturers often used I settled on Unique Design in Ohio. Makes a nice heavy gauge box. Original specs. Powder coated and ready to paint. Thinking it was around $80 but don't hold me to that. Looks real nice on tractor. Materials, labor, welding, paint and painter. I doubt you could save anything over what is already offered.
Take the new battery with you to the metal shop and have them make a battery box. I restored a Standardtwin garden tractor that needed a new fan shroud and I took the old shroud along and asked if they would make a new one. He said to come back in about an hour and it fit like a glove. Cost was $10.00. Hal
PS: They can probably make that while you wait.
PS: They can probably make that while you wait.
That is what we were thinking, however its not as simple as taking the battery and having one made. Unless its a Cub, it will have to mount to the tractor's existing mounting holes. For the Super A - 140 tractors I am wanting to have the "individual panel" style made (like on 140's). $150 is just out of the question for the 2 sides and top. I am painting these tractors anyways, so painting the box isn't an issue. Just let me know what you guys come up with.
If the mounting holes are on the outer edges where the batery box is located your metal shop can make and weld small brackets to the battery box for securing the battery box. They can probably make your battery boxes from one piece of metal since they have a brake for bending. They would probably have to weld the corners. Hal
(quoted from post at 20:37:43 12/25/10) Here's a place that sells battery boxes. Call 1-800-283-2122. Hal
Yea, I think that is OEM's website/ad. We have 2 or 3 battery boxes on tractors, so I would be able to take them down there to let them duplicate them. I think we also have a 1 piece box on a Super A tractor where 1 side is rusted through.
I wonder which one would be the best to take them? The later model "panel" design box, or the 1 piece early style?? I'm not sure if I have any lids for them though; which isn't a big a deal as the box itself. THANKS>
That would be an easy project for a metal shop.
Hal
PS: I would clean them of any oil and spray them with an acid primer. I did these wheel weights over 35 years ago using an acid primer and I never put a finish coat on them. See how they withstood all those years. Hal
Hal
PS: I would clean them of any oil and spray them with an acid primer. I did these wheel weights over 35 years ago using an acid primer and I never put a finish coat on them. See how they withstood all those years. Hal
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