ri702bill 11,590 #1 Posted 18 hours ago (edited) Work continues on the C81 I picked up last July. Three of the four shaker plate isolation mounts were bad - one far worse than the rest - the steel center sleeve was completely broken out of the rubber. All 4 were questionable on the parts donor too. The fix I decided on was to reuse the eight steel flange shells and discard the rubber & sleeves. I made up four make & four female aluminum inserts - they pilot into each other when assembled. An 8 inch length of 1-1/2 diameter aluminum set me back about 14 bucks. Additional centering rings were made to pilot into the steel plate. Not having CNC capability on my lathe, it was fairly labor intensive to turn up the aluminum parts, but the result almost looks like the originals when I did the powder coating... Edited 18 hours ago by ri702bill 5 11 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
c-series don 11,713 #2 Posted 4 hours ago I envy you talent and abilities Bill ! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pfrederi 20,077 #3 Posted 4 hours ago Wish I had your or talents and tools.... I just ditch the whole shaker mount and mount the engines directly to the frame. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dan 312-8 477 #4 Posted 3 hours ago 1 hour ago, c-series don said: I envy you talent and abilities Bill ! Definitely! @ri702bill You had me at doing your own powder coating! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ri702bill 11,590 #5 Posted 3 hours ago (edited) 47 minutes ago, Dan 312-8 said: Definitely! @ri702bill You had me at doing your own powder coating! That was a short dollar investment my son purchased about 10 years ago. HFT had both the machine and the pound of black on sale. He went thru 2 containers doing small car parts. The other two items are a dedicated toaster oven - $5 at a yard sale and a low pressure inline air regulator and a 0 to 30 PSI gauge. The process out gasses heavily - hence the dedicated oven. Edited 2 hours ago by ri702bill 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ri702bill 11,590 #6 Posted 2 hours ago 47 minutes ago, Dan 312-8 said: Definitely! @ri702bill You had me at doing your own powder coating! My first powder coated tractor part was the 2-pc steering wheel adapter for the C81 that I made about 5 years ago.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
