Another use for my baseburner

A customer needed a custom heavy-wall bushing for a loader he has and asked me to make one for him. I didn't have any tubing or shaft material that would work but I found a coupler on the back of a Ford tractor transmission. The problem was it was way too hard to machine. A file wouldn't even scratch it. The only way it would work would be to anneal it and remove the hardness. I needed to keep it red for at least an hour then cool it very slowly. That would have cost a lot with an oxy-acetelyn torch and I got the idea to put it in my Wehrle. It was running anyway and it turned the coupler cherry red in a few minutes. I left it in there for about 2 1/2 hours to be sure and put it in a barrel of oil dry, then buried it until this morning. After a good cleaning it machined beautifully.

Genius...where there’s a will there’s a way!

American ingenuity at it's best J!! Well done my friend.

Keith Fenner would be proud.

I heated a few peices of steel in my hand fed to bend up but nothing quite so glamorous

If ya can’t be handsome ya might as well be handy.

Base burner forge added to list.