BukitCase
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- Feb 17, 2012
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- Location
- Albany OR
- Tractor
- Case 580B, Long 460, Allis-Chalmers 160
Bought a 10# box of Stoody 35 about 9 years ago to build up the ripper slots in a Gannon Box Scraper - the rippers are notched on one side, they're inserted in slots in a 6" box beam that's about 1/2" thick, slots are about 1" wide - ripper goes in, pick a notch (depth control), slide a large "bobby pin" in behind the ripper, and (theoretically) it doesn't fall out :laughing:
Reality - the surface where the notch in the ripper sits, DOES wear, needs to be hard, and has a small area so is a bit tricky to use stick unless you're more of a weldor than I am
Process sorta worked about 9 years ago, I'm a LITTLE bit better now than I was, and still have all but about 4 sticks of the Stoody rod (1/8") - it's been stored in my dry garage, in the original foil lined box, inside a covered plastic tote for all that time - just opened the box, pulled out a stick, and it doesn't look any different than it did 9 years ago (more or less - at least, no rust on the bare end and no sign of coating flaking off, etc)
(finally) the question - I've looked at Victor's stoody site for any info on rejuvenation/storage, etc, and found precisely ZIP, other than I probably shoulda got a different product :drool: Although this worked OK for my purpose -
Sooo, anybody know (1) do I need to bake this stuff out just to be sure, (2) how long/hot? Or, maybe just run some (I'd written "needs 2 passes minimum" on the box, musta been what the LWS guy told me) on some scrap and see how it does (what I'm gonna do if nobody chimes in and doesn't sound like they're talkin' out the wrong end )
Floor's open, now "learn me some stuff" :licking: Steve
Reality - the surface where the notch in the ripper sits, DOES wear, needs to be hard, and has a small area so is a bit tricky to use stick unless you're more of a weldor than I am
Process sorta worked about 9 years ago, I'm a LITTLE bit better now than I was, and still have all but about 4 sticks of the Stoody rod (1/8") - it's been stored in my dry garage, in the original foil lined box, inside a covered plastic tote for all that time - just opened the box, pulled out a stick, and it doesn't look any different than it did 9 years ago (more or less - at least, no rust on the bare end and no sign of coating flaking off, etc)
(finally) the question - I've looked at Victor's stoody site for any info on rejuvenation/storage, etc, and found precisely ZIP, other than I probably shoulda got a different product :drool: Although this worked OK for my purpose -
Sooo, anybody know (1) do I need to bake this stuff out just to be sure, (2) how long/hot? Or, maybe just run some (I'd written "needs 2 passes minimum" on the box, musta been what the LWS guy told me) on some scrap and see how it does (what I'm gonna do if nobody chimes in and doesn't sound like they're talkin' out the wrong end
)Floor's open, now "learn me some stuff" :licking: Steve
