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Prater

Its not a Wheel Horse, but belongs to a friend. He said I could use it if I fix the disks. Anyone have some pointers to repairing these without buying new ones?

Thanks

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igota310-8

Not really knowing exactly what kind of steel they are ( assume they are something somewhat soft tho) I would Try first with a press, or sandwich them between some hardwood and Jump on them a bit if you dont have a press.

Then just hammer them out with a blacksmiths hammer and anvil.

Eric

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kpinnc

You could take a 5 gallon bucket, fill it with concrete, and use one of the good disks to form a dome on top. Let it cure, and use it as a form for the others AFTER you get the worst of the bends out.

May or may not work, but a bag of concrete is about 3 bucks...

Good luck!

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igota310-8

You could take a 5 gallon bucket, fill it with concrete, and use one of the good disks to form a dome on top. Let it cure, and use it as a form for the others AFTER you get the worst of the bends out.

May or may not work, but a bag of concrete is about 3 bucks...

Good luck!

Excellent Idea, now if you added a threaded rod to the center of the Concrete you could just add some washers and a nut and "Press" the bent disk in to shape, maybe even gently heat it.

:omg:

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Jim_M

You can pick up new ones pretty reasonably at TSC or Rural King. TSC may not have them on the shelf but they'll order them for you.

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Sarge

Please, if you use the concrete method (good idea, btw...) DO NOT heat the steel against the concrete-exploding rocks are not only hot but can hurt a lot -trust me.

Sarge

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Coadster32
exploding rocks
Never heard of that before. :omg: Please, do tell.

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Sarge

Try cutting some thick steel with a torch once, just the drippings of molten metal will cause the voids/air pockets in concrete to explode, sometimes quite violently. I've seen welding shops with large pockets blown out of the floor , done it myself a time or two...

Sarge

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jusjeepn

Steven, i just picked up a Brinly disc that had the same problem! I removed the damaged disc tonight and put it in the vice to tweek it a little and used a 6lb hammer and anvil to straighten the rest. A little massaging with a flapper wheel and you can't tell it was ever bent. I just used the concrete floor to tell me when the cutting edge was flat and true. Took about 15 min. Easy peasy lemon squeezy! :omg:

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KyBlue

Pat , your taking those insurance commercials to heart...lol

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Prater

Anyone know who made this disk? It has a either a B-181 or D-181 cast into the spindle.

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Jim_M

It looks like a Brinly to me.

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jusjeepn

Definitely Brinly! Identical to mine which still has the Brinly stickers on it including the serial no#

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jusjeepn

Here's mine after a face lift!

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Here's the decals that are/were on it! I'm having new ones made!

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bell

That looks GREAT Pat!!! NICE JOB! :omg:

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d180man

Hi i think they just sold some on ebay but yes our tsc sead they could get them ? but i never orded them! you just have to check with them and you may wount to look on ebay! :omg:

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