OutdoorKing Repair Forum Forums Restoring, Customising and Modifying Tech Talk whirlwind tiller made by masport

I should have taken some extra pics.




The weight has a pin, (if memory is right, its steel, pressed into the weight from the underside, could even be a bolt with no head) it goes in a hole in the front cover on the front of the gearbox. Its cast has a step on it and shims between it and the bearing in the front of the gearbox.
The pin has a hole in the bottom for a split pin so it cant lift out.
At the back of the weight on its underside, theres an arch that straddles the pto tube.

Find the slide out of a big broken vice. Cut the jaw end off or down and shape it to the arch. Or if its busted cut up some steel plate and bolt that to the front. Drill a hole in the other end and drop in a bolt. Tip it up side down, bend up some steel rod into a handle and hook it in where the screw used to go. Melt some lead up in a pot and fill the channel around the screw with lead, maybe a few holes horizontally and poke some bolts or pins in the side to act as re-bar. would be a good little afternoon project.

What is the weight of the 'weight' ? - been looking at a piece of rail track - I have two bits here I use as anvils but they have flats welded on for feet - need to get another bit. Top is OK for width but the wider bottom will need trimming.

Hard to get a sense of scale from the picture, but it looks like about 5-7 kg. Most flat-bottom rail is between 40 and 70 kg per metre, so you would only need a short piece - somewhat more than 10 cm by the time you narrowed the flat bottom and added a handle on top. (I'm talking about serious railway line, not tram rail or crane rail.) It would be very helpful if Bob could weigh his - pity to spend hours cutting a piece of rail only to find the weight is wrong. Rail line is structural steel, not mild steel, which makes cutting it a bit slower. My power hacksaw would take a number of minutes to cut it to length, and milling or sawing the bottom flange would take a while.

Measured the rails - the biggest is a straight piece - no base plate it weighs in at 100Kg per meter the other is a short piece welded vertically to a base plate and weighs in at 40Kg per meter. The big piece is 85mm across the top and too big for a digger weight as there is only 75mm clearance between the tines. The small (and the one I use the most) is 65mm across the top and perfect size to make into a digger weight. - now to go searching.

Sorry cant give any more info.

Its in dads shed, 3 1/2 hrs away.

Let me know, next time im up there i can weigh it.

At a guess, i would say 5-7 kg would be a good ball park, but it could be more. Its a decent lump, that for sure.