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NW Iowa. / SW Arizona | I have a Artsway PM 30 grinder that on the auger feeder over the years I have put a bunch of dents in the tube. This was accomplished by not lifting the auger up high enough & putting it in the holding saddle. Not sure if you can see it good enough but it's dented in a good 1" to 1 1/2" in places probably 6"-8" long. I know body shops have tools to help pull these out but I'm no body shop owner. Any ideas are appreciated, thanks.
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Bethany, MO | Looks too small for basketball, so volleyball inside, air it up some and tap on creases with a rubber mallet. Or make a half moon out of pipe with a scissor jack. Or weld the head of a bolt on in the deep part and use a channel running with the tube with a hole in it. That will take the longest with those dents. |
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south central kansas | I pushed out a dent on my grain cart auger by looking around and finding a drum brake pad that was close. welded a big nut in the center to hold it and then used the smallest bottle jack I could find. hard part was finding a jack small enough and good enough it would work on its side. also put a long 2x4 under jack to spread out pressure. |
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Germany | Hey a basketball would perfectly fit my combine unload auger, just in case I would ever get into trouble with it once again :-)
Another idea that only can be found on agtalk. |
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NW Ohio | you might find an old scissors jack from a car or van. Weld metal close to the curvature that you are after and fasten a long rod or pipe to the crank and insert the jack in at the bent metal. You can put pressure from the inside and help it a little with a hammer. |
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C IL | We used small scissors jack and light heat with torch. |
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Ns/Tr co. Ks | Weld something on, pull or slide hammer |
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West Ky | We dented the auger on a grain cart and we put in a hydraulic jack in it and worked it out so smooth you can not even tell where the dent was even at. It was a good sized dent too. Think of a way to get something in their to push on it, may have to get a 3/8 piece of steel or bigger and bend it the same way the auger is shaped and push on it on the inside. |
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Southern Illinois | we welded a bolt to the auger, then had a piece of 2x3 channel iron with a hole in it. Heat up the auger and tighten the bolt, kind of a makeshift puller. Work from the outside in taking little bites. won't be perfect but not bad |
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alymer ontario | Agreed lot easier from outside to weld a bolt on heat till really red then pull it out |
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| Use a scissor jack with two pipe sections similar in dia. to the tube as suggested above. Push jack in tube and put pressure on, then beat on the dented area on the outside with a large rubber mallet, keep applying pressure with jack. We did this at an auger factory to straighten dented tubes before assembly but had a hydraulic jack that developed good pressure.
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Michigan | Porta power kit does wonders
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Kissimmee, FL | Have someone make you a new one. That one's done its job. |
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Pilot Grove, Missouri | Sometimes it's faster and easier to cut out the damaged area and replace with new metal. Patrick |
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Sac & Story county IA | Gomaco throws away a lot of heavy pipe pieces that would make dies to use with scissors jack. One of those deals where it takes 3 hours to make the tool and 10 minutes to make the repair. I would bet that in 5 years when you want to straighten it again, you will not be able to find the stuff you used this time. |
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South Georgia | you wont have to take auger out ....take cutting tourch cut the dent out and go to machine shop and have them roll a piece to cap it and lay on top and weld it up. Done one that wind blowed it over and works fine. |
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| I could be wrong but doesn't the top come off of that?
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Hazelton, Kansas | Mark,
If the ends come off, you can pull a short chunk of "right-sized" telephone pole through the tube. We did that on an auger tube a few years ago. Pound on it with a rubber mallet when it gets tight. It worked well enough for us, but some of the other ideas posted here honestly sound better to me.
FWIW
MDS
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Remington, IN | On a 10" bin auger I welded a few nuts on around the ding and pulled the dent out with a slide hammer. Didn't look perfect but did what I needed without pulling the auger out.
Bruce |
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NW Iowa. / SW Arizona | Thanks for all the replies everybody. Ross yes it is, after looking it over this afternoon that's what I did I took the top off and between beating it with a 2x4 and a car scissors jack I got a lot of dents out, heck of lot better then it was. Wasn't near as bad of a job as I thought it was going to be.
Thanks again everybody. |
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NW Iowa. / SW Arizona | Thanks for all the replies everybody. Ross yes it is, after looking it over this afternoon that's what I did I took the top off and between beating it with a 2x4 and a car scissors jack I got a lot of dents out, heck of lot better then it was. Wasn't near as bad of a job as I thought it was going to be.
Thanks again everybody. |
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Need ideas on how to take out dents in auger tube
