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  1. #1
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    Cool Kubota tractor part made.

    A guy brought me this bracket that had an ear broke off and wanted me to make another bracket from 1/2" plate. That was the easy part. As the bolts were metric and had a taper like the old VW wheel studs. So i dreamed up a tapered washer to use between the 7/16" grade 8 bolts i found and made the tapered washers from 3/4" 4140 barstock. Then the braket had tapered seats on the side where the bearing housing sat. So i had to rig up a way to drill the taper using a 4 flute 1 1/16 #3 MT drill bit which doesn't fit my drill press. So i used my lathe spindle to hold the #3 MT drill (and it does fit the SB lathe spindle just fine). And i held the plate to drill with my compound mounted angle plate and some vise grips. Oh i used my 8" 4 jaw chuck to hold the plate to bore the 3" round hole for the bearing housing. Then i had to bandsaw the 2" split in it. Nice hour job on this crummy day outside. My buddy is going to weld it back on the tractor where ever he cut it off of. Enjoy...Bob
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    Cool

    A few more pics...Bob
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    Aww Bob, you just combined two of my favorite things! A Kubota and a lathe!
    Looks like a solid fix too.

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    Cool

    Quote Originally Posted by Ben Dono View Post
    Aww Bob, you just combined two of my favorite things! A Kubota and a lathe!
    Looks like a solid fix too.
    Thanks. My dad was a Kubota dealer from '69-'77 and his buddy bought the first tractor he sold in '69. He still uses it...Bob

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    Bob that's a good bit of history there. They are great tractors! So your working on a tractor you old man sold to his mate close to 45yrs ago! You guys take the Kubota warranty pretty seriously over there!

    It's nice to see people taking care of their gear! I have a new L4400 and love that little tractor. I was actually after an old tractor to fix it up but front end loaders are a bit hard on them and to tell you the truth, I didn't have the time to learn about the old timers.
    Post up a pic of the tractor when you get a chance!

    Did your old man give his mate a great price on the tractor?

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