Flipmartian
New member
Hi folks.
My first post!
I thought I got a bargain wadkin 10 AGS on eBay. It arrived the other day and appeared in good order. I started cleaning it up and found It wouldn’t tilt all the way to 45 degrees as it was quite hard to turn the tilt wheel. It wouldn’t go any further. Turning it back the other way made a clunk and the whole trunnion assembly dropped to the floor. The trunnion bracket had snapped at one end.
I suppose I should have stripped the thing down at first sign of a stiff wheel. It didn’t seem that bad and seemed quite easy to break.
Anyone have ideas on my next course of action. Was thinking:
Buy a new/used replacement trunnion bracket?
Or get the one I have welded back together?
I will obviously strip it down and clean everything up too.
Perhaps it was a stiff mechanism due to a crack and some kind of misalignment or it was basically seized up due to neglect / lack of maintenance. The finger plate was all bashed up. I presume something happened in the past that could have damaged the trunnion.
Do you think a welded part can be as good as original? The new replacement parts seem extremely expensive and welding sounds cheaper!
My first post!
I thought I got a bargain wadkin 10 AGS on eBay. It arrived the other day and appeared in good order. I started cleaning it up and found It wouldn’t tilt all the way to 45 degrees as it was quite hard to turn the tilt wheel. It wouldn’t go any further. Turning it back the other way made a clunk and the whole trunnion assembly dropped to the floor. The trunnion bracket had snapped at one end.
I suppose I should have stripped the thing down at first sign of a stiff wheel. It didn’t seem that bad and seemed quite easy to break.
Anyone have ideas on my next course of action. Was thinking:
Buy a new/used replacement trunnion bracket?
Or get the one I have welded back together?
I will obviously strip it down and clean everything up too.
Perhaps it was a stiff mechanism due to a crack and some kind of misalignment or it was basically seized up due to neglect / lack of maintenance. The finger plate was all bashed up. I presume something happened in the past that could have damaged the trunnion.
Do you think a welded part can be as good as original? The new replacement parts seem extremely expensive and welding sounds cheaper!