Here's the story,I've got a Freeman loader,quite a heavy duty one,that I bought used and have had for 30 years. The pins are wearing right through the holes til they're right back to where they're wearing against the two plates on either side.
Does anybody know a source for some kind of hardened steel insert where a person could bore or cut the old ones out and weld new inserts in? I need something for a one inch pin and they need to be about two and a half inches long.
I've rebuilt the mounts on buckets before by torching the holes out bigger and round then welding lock collars from bearings in the holes,they're good and hard and work well,but what I need for this job needs to be long enough to go all the way through the loader.
Does anybody know a source for some kind of hardened steel insert where a person could bore or cut the old ones out and weld new inserts in? I need something for a one inch pin and they need to be about two and a half inches long.
I've rebuilt the mounts on buckets before by torching the holes out bigger and round then welding lock collars from bearings in the holes,they're good and hard and work well,but what I need for this job needs to be long enough to go all the way through the loader.
