Hi
Thanks Carl, Steve, Thomas, Kim and Terry
The encouragement is most welcome
The next little problem I have come across is trying to figure out how to align everything and hold it in place
There is a valve rod that comes through this bush
And screws into the die block in the link
At the moment its out of alignment but that can be overcome by moving the eccentrics along the axle a little. Once thats done the 4 lifting links can be fitted and attached to the lifting arms. The lifting arms must be held in place somehow then drilled and pinned to the weigh shaft
After about 2 hours of getting nowhere
I came to the conclusion that a modification would be needed
This is what I came up with
Machine a small pocket into each lifting arm with a 6mm end mill
Turn 4 steel bosses drilled through 3.3mm
Each steel boss is silver soldered into the lifting arm and then tapped M4
The reason for the steel bosses is there isn't enough material to simply drill and tap the lifting arm
After a coat of paint to tidy things up. Each arm is fitted with a pointed M4 grub screw
Likewise the reversing arm has had the same treatment
Hopefully now I can set each arm correctly and lock it in place with the grub screw. If the grub screws don't hold the arms securely enough I can remove the weighshaft complete with the arms and drill and pin them
Cheers
Rich