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Re: (ET) E15 Frame



Before you scrap anything, why not take the frame to a welding shop and see what they can do? I have a local guy who i have seen do wondrous things with metal for little money.

David



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> Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2010 19:07:04 -0400
> From: Chris Zach <cz alembic crystel com>
> To: elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu
> Subject: (ET) Darn, the E15 is too far gone....
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> Ah well, drat...
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> Was working on the E15 frame today; rolled out the E20 and hooked up the
> stick welder. Which actually is a very good welder, not going to work on
> sheet metal but will penetrate deck steel properly. And being stick it
> doesn't seem to mind welding to solid rusted metal as long as you wire
> brush it a good bit.
>
> Used some clamps to hook up the new angle iron, fired up the welder, and
> went to town. It's possible to balance an E15 on it's nose with the
> motor out and the transmission off, so welding was not too bad.
>
> And when I was done sure enough the rear deck was solid. I was able to
> stand on the rear corner, jump on it, and hit it with a 3 pound setting
> maul with no problems.
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> Then I took a look at the transmission bracket. There was still one bolt
> fused into it; I tried everything to get it loose noticing that the
> bracket's hold on the rusted side steel was very weak. Weak enough that
> a single hit with the maul broke it off the frame.
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> Not good. Welding that back on would pretty much require building a
> whole new back end for this thing. That's not easy, requires a tight
> alignment, and is a structural member that I can't trust my welds on.
>
> Oh well. I think this little E15 is shot. I spent about an hour removing
> two of the rusted remains of the rear rivets. For some reason those are
> an insanely hard carbon steel that requires about 20 minutes with the
> saber saw and oil to cut.
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> Any thoughts on what parts I should keep? The brake kit looks to be the
> upgraded later model; I'll hang onto that. The peerless has pits in it's
> shaft housing to the left wheel; I think what happened is that leaves
> and crud were stuck there for years and they held water against the
> metal like a sponge. Oh, wash your tractor at least once a year.
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> Anything else?
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> C
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