Bent pins: fix or replace?

[Williy]

I use a 5 lb hammer but don't use full force
I don't want shaft bend the opposite way

willy

 

[5030]

Drill rod will work-harden and break instead of bend.

No, it won't unless heated to the prescribed hardening temperature.

Brass work hardens, drill rod don't.

 

[RayIN]

No, it won't unless heated to the prescribed hardening temperature.

Brass work hardens, drill rod don't.

Retired after 40 years as toolmaker, I won't argue the point.

 

[5030]

Retired after 40 years as toolmaker, I won't argue the point.

Good, I happen to own and operate a short run tool and die and heavy fabrication shop. I deal with all types of steels and other alloys every day and I have my Journeyman's card in T&D as well and I'm certified in TIG welding in exotic alloys too.

Oil hardening or air hardening drill rod remains ductile until it's heated to the hardening temperature specified and then quenched or cooled by other (external) means.

A pin in an assembly isn't subject to heating last time I checked.

He could always just buy a mild steel round that has been ground as well.

 

[Henro]

At the end of the day, why use the swing lock to begin with, unless transporting the tractor on a trailer or other vehicle?

After 24 years, I had to go look at my backhoe, to be sure there was a swing lock pin! There is one!...Never felt the need to use it around the homestead.

Am I the exception here?

Now the boom lock, I use all the time. Different animal...