[TheForge] Sprocket with the spline stripped out

[Walter L. Mullett]

Some people may say it would have been cheaper to buy it but they don't give
credit for personal satisfaction.  When most people lived off the land,
their worth was measured by how well they provided food, clothing and
shelter for themselves.  The rewards were almost immediate.  You have a
successful hunt, you eat.

Today the measure is money and you don't feel you get the same credit from
your family nor do you feel the same.  I think that's because the rewards
are postponed and sometimes someone else uses the money to "bring home the
bacon".  (Your wife shops.)

The problem is that now, some people can only measure your worth by money.
When work was slow and money was tight, I did like you.  I paid myself to do
it.  However, my first wife always failed to recognize my contributions.
It wasn't money earned even though it wasn't money spent.

Now, I have often considered giving myself a bill.  Something tangible so my
wife may appreciate it.   Since my job went away again and it is so bad here
in NE Ohio, it looks like I am going to have to start doing that.  I'm
redoing our screened in porch which saves us a couple of thousand dollars.
I just need to make sure my wife sees that as earnings.

Good job and mark the bill PAID IN FULL.


-----Original Message-----
From: Darrell <darrell at machinemaster.com>
To: Sponsored by ABANA <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Date: Sunday, August 22, 2004 11:54 PM
Subject: [TheForge] Sprocket with the spline stripped out


>The spline stripped out of the drive sprocket on the roto tiller on my
>Mitsubishi tractor the other day. I searched the internet and called all of
>the tractor parts places I could find. No joy any where. The best I could
>find is a place in Portland OR. that would make me one for about $500.00.
>So out to the shop. I built the inside of the hub up with 7018 doing a
>narrow weave pass, let cool, chip slag, rotate a new area to the bottom and
>repeat until I had enough metal build up.
>Then I chucked it up in the lathe and bored the hub out to the minor
>diameter of the spline. I ground a tooth cutter out of an old file and put
>it in a tool holder on the lathe. There was just enough of the old spline
>pattern on the end of the hub to use as a start. I wrote s short program
for
>the lathe that would run the tool in the length of the hub, move away from
>the hub, retract out of the hub, move .003" more into the hub and repeat
>until I reached the depth needed for the spline. Rotate the spindle to the
>next point and run program again.
>It took about two hours but it worked and the field is roto tilled.
>Darrell
>
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