RE: (ET) How do you remove the mower motor flanges?

["Hazen, Dwight L" <hazen indiana edu>]

I always put some grease on my motor to blade flanges when I have the
blades off for sharpening. They should come off just by pulling them off
with your fingers. Make sure you do not get grease or oil on the fiber
washers between the flange and blade as it will cause the blade to slip
and burn out the fiber washers and mess something up. 

Chris, after over 100 tons or force I bet you do not believe they will
just fall off when you take the blade screw out. 

And we all use anti seize on all the bolts right?

 Dwight

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-----Original Message-----
From: elec-trak-bounces cosmos phy tufts edu
[mailto:elec-trak-bounces cosmos phy tufts edu] On Behalf Of Chris Zach
Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 4:17 PM
To: Elec-trak list
Subject: (ET) How do you remove the mower motor flanges?

Ok, this is insane.

So I want to overhaul my deck motor. Tall, thin, 30 years old or so. In 
order to do this you have to remove the bottom mower flange.

So I try to use a bearing puller. No dice; ripped the puller apart.

So I took it to an alternator shop and they put it in the 20 ton 
hydraulic press. Once again, no dice, it would not budge.

So I took it to a big greasy truck transmission rebuild shop. They put 
it on their press.

And promptly started to bend their press around the motor. At peak they 
were putting 135 TONS of force on the mount. No dice, in fact the bottom

of the mount is now slightly curled up.

What does it take to remove these things, and if it's a cutting tool, 
what's the best way? Now that Bill is gone, is there a source for these 
flanges?

Chris


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