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Feb 08, Put the long bushing on a 2 1/2 OD pivot set an angle grinder cut off disk at the middle rotate the bushing as you cut then you cut 1/2 inch depth not 3 inches. The cut will be as square as you set the pivot to the cut off blade. A bushing is basically an inside diameter, and all I needed was to make it slightly smaller. Welding is an excellent way to shrink metal if properly preformed.

Since the applied weld material is very hot it will shrink as it cools. So by welding a bead across the bushing, I ever so slightly change its outside diameter. Thus loosening it in the stumpmulching.barted Reading Time: 2 mins. Oct 13, Use a wrench or vice grips to hold one of the nuts tight. Then torque the other nut with a wrench. As the socket pushes the bushing, the opposite socket acts as a brace, pressing up against the housing essentially pressing the bushing into the housing.

After a few minutes, the bushing was entirely in the housing, all without a stumpmulching.barted Reading Time: 7 mins. Mar 01, Sharpen a chisel to a blunt angle sharp edge. Then try to"cave in" the bushing.

You are trying to collapse the bushing inside stumpmulching.bar trying to CUT it out. Jan 04, The center of the old hole is carefully located, then enlarged very carefully using a reaming tool that cuts a perfectly round hole in the exact location of the worn hole.

A brass or bronze bushing either from an assortment or made using a lathe and bushing.