Roll Pins / Lottery Tickets

[ChubbyMinnow 34]

I was actually able to remove not 1, not 2, but 3 roll pins in one day. Not only that.......I was able to reuse one of them needed on another tractor! After nearly destroying a tractor trying to get my first steering wheel off, i was not looking forward to this today. It all worked out tho. Skinny Minnow said i should go buy some lottery tickets today i thought about going after #4, the steering wheel, but thought not gonna push my luck and keep soaking it for a while and end the day on a good note.

i dont know what whoever was thinking that invented those ....... things! 

[troutbum70 857]

The ones holding the steering wheels are fer sure a miserable bear to get out.

[AMC RULES 37,130]

Heat both ends red hot, then easily push them right out.

[Handy Don 12,235]

12 minutes ago, AMC RULES said:

Heat both ends red hot, then easily push them right out.

This works if you can get the end exposed and not so well for the plastic steering wheels with the metal sleeve insert!

[AMC RULES 37,130]

Certainly wouldn't work for every application, but when you can, makes short work of them.

[c-series don 8,721]

@AMC RULESC’mon Craig you know you can’t do that with a plastic steering wheel with a metal collar! 

[AMC RULES 37,130]

 Aww c'mon Donny, nobody said you could.

[squonk 41,151]

Roll pin punches made for impact hammers! 

[953 nut 55,310]

10 hours ago, AMC RULES said:

Heat both ends red hot, then easily push them right out.

On a steering wheel I have removed the tower, lowered the shaft collar as far as you can and then heated the steering shaft just below the steering wheel until the plastic can't take any more (best to do this outside because it starts to smell). The heat from the shaft will travel up into the metal insert and the roll pin. Now take some paraffin wax and allow it to melt into the openings of both ends of the roll pin as well as between the shaft and the metal insert in the steering wheel. It will smoke a bit but keep adding wax as long as the heat will melt it. This will help break the brown-weld (rust bond) and lubricate the surfaces.

[ChubbyMinnow 34]

3 hours ago, squonk said:

Roll pin punches made for impact hammers! 

That didnt even work on the first steering wheel  after 2-12 weeks of soaking it. On that one, i eventually cut the thing off.

[ChubbyMinnow 34]

10 hours ago, AMC RULES said:

Heat both ends red hot, then easily push them right out.

I am gonna do my best to save this one and dont want to melt the plastic Its in pretty good shape.

[ChubbyMinnow 34]

5 minutes ago, 953 nut said:

On a steering wheel I have removed the tower, lowered the shaft collar as far as you can and then heated the steering shaft just below the steering wheel until the plastic can't take any more (best to do this outside because it starts to smell). The heat from the shaft will travel up into the metal insert and the roll pin. Now take some paraffin wax and allow it to melt into the openings of both ends of the roll pin as well as between the shaft and the metal insert in the steering wheel. It will smoke a bit but keep adding wax as long as the heat will melt it. This will help break the brown-weld (rust bond) and lubricate the surfaces.

I might just try this one if it gives me a hard time. Thx!

[Shynon 7,459]

Get your self a set of these short roll pin punches. They work

 

Amazon.com: Grace USA - Steel Roll Spring Punch Set - SRS7 - Gunsmithing - Steel Punches - 7 piece - Gunsmith Tools & Accessories, Black, Short Steel Roll Set : Tools & Home Improvement

[ChubbyMinnow 34]

9 hours ago, Shynon said:

Get your self a set of these short roll pin punches. They work

 

Amazon.com: Grace USA - Steel Roll Spring Punch Set - SRS7 - Gunsmithing - Steel Punches - 7 piece - Gunsmith Tools & Accessories, Black, Short Steel Roll Set : Tools & Home Improvement

Yepper! Ordered...... got a pic of that set from Prondzy on Friday....now if i can figure how to swing a hammer with 90degree bend at the last second to get around the wheel, im golden!

[Jeff-C175 7,202]

Speaking of roll pins...  In the process of taking apart the auger shaft to replace the auger bearings on a WH snow thrower I came across something I've not seen before.

 

A 5/32 roll pin driven into a 1/4" roll pin.

 

Was a bit of a challenge to disassemble, but I gotterdone.

 

I'm not sure  it's really necessary to have two pins, but if WH did it, then I guess I'm going to do it when I reassemble.

 

Edited September 6, 2021 by Jeff-C175

[AHS 1,440]

7 hours ago, Jeff-C175 said:

Speaking of roll pins...  In the process of taking apart the auger shaft to replace the auger bearings on a WH snow thrower I came across something I've not seen before.

 

A 5/32 roll pin driven into a 1/4" roll pin.

 

Was a bit of a challenge to disassemble, but I gotterdone.

 

I'm not sure  it's really necessary to have two pins, but if WH did it, then I guess I'm going to do it when I reassemble.

 

Yes! I know of the one! The snowblower with the wheels. I was disappointed to figure out that it had one 1/4” roll pin. “Oh brother!”😳

[cleat 6,046]

Doubling up roll pins is done to increase strength.

 

My roll pin kit even came with a chart showing how to properly nest them and the sizes required.

 

[Lee1977 6,666]

The lottery tickets, you can go for it. but Lady Luck is fickle don't hang around long. My guess she's already some other place.