Hey Vscummins

I missed most of your post about the bent loader cylinder, how'd you end up straightening it? With a press? Since you straightened those big ones, I should be able to straighten my little one in a similar fashion.

I bought a grain drill the other day at auction, and the cylinder has a slight bend to it I'd like to attempt to straighten, since it's a original IH cylinder with the little depth stop "button" on it. Cylinder retracts/extends ok, and isn't leaking, and I really haven't figured out how the previous owner bent it, unless he/she had the cylinder on something else at some point in time (which is highly possible.. I've always had to play musical cylinders.. But, if I buy 2 more everything I have will have it's own, finally!).

And for those "you can't" or "it will just bend again" guys.. It's a 14' drill, the cylinder raises the openers (that I can lift by hand using a pipe/crescent wrench), and I'm not running over 500 acres a year or anything like that, in fact, I will hardly be running over enough ground to even say I'm farming, so I'll take my chances.. when it bends or breaks again I'll see about a proper fix.

Thanks,
Brad

I used a big pipe bender I couldn't not get them
perfect but they work when I started they were in
bad shape

My 14 foot drill bent my cylinder to . Is it an ih drill
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Just a slight bend and working I would leave it alone. As for getting bent probably was on something either way to heavy for it to handle with a over pressured system or it was longer than the implement would allow before cylinder reached end of stroke. But then usually something on implement will break first.

I think you are understating "bad shape". Lol. That's the best "resurrected from the scrap pile" situation I've seen this year.

Back to OP - do you have a port-a-power? You should be able to straighten a small cylinder like that without taking it apart.

(quoted from post at 23:59:25 04/15/16) My 14 foot drill bent my cylinder to . Is it an ih drill
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Thanks! i don't have access to a pipe bender, but I do a press. Seeing how you did that if I decide to attempt it, I should be able to do it in the shop press easy enough.

As a matter of fact, it is a IH drill.. It's a old 620 press drill. Had 2 of em about 6-8 years ago (one user, one parts), shoulda kept the one I was using back then, but my career wasn't allowing me to do it, so I sold off everything but my tractors, disc, and plow... Now I've made a career change, and I'm buying it all back (but now I own my home and have somewhere to store my merchandise, so I won't have to sell it off this time if I lose the time to do it again!)

Brad

I personally do not have a porta-power, but one of the field mechanics at work probably would.. Are you saying with a porta power it could be left on the drill, or I just wouldn't have to tear it all apart? (Was thinking even on the shop press I can probably not tear it all apart) It's not a very big deal to remove it from the drill.. 2 pins and slide it out (drill is already pinned in the transport position)

Brad

When I put the hydraulic cylinder on my 620 drill it
bent the cylinder the first time I rated it I think the
cylinder was to long . My drill use to have an ih
hand crank to raise and lower