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While the forge has been up and running , I have been working on the blower section. As you have seen in part one of this series the gears from the fan transmission were seized up solid.
I did some research on the internet about loosening seized gears and found an old engine forum.
I read some of the threads and one guy said that soaking the part in oil/kerosene/diesel and lighting it on fire was a good way to get the metal heated up and at the same time allowing a lubricating fluid to reach in and penetrate the seized parts. I used this method on the gears and let it burn for about two hours, after that I dropped it in a bucket of old engine oil.
While the forge has been up and running , I have been working on the blower section. As you have seen in part one of this series the gears from the fan transmission were seized up solid.
I did some research on the internet about loosening seized gears and found an old engine forum.
I read some of the threads and one guy said that soaking the part in oil/kerosene/diesel and lighting it on fire was a good way to get the metal heated up and at the same time allowing a lubricating fluid to reach in and penetrate the seized parts. I used this method on the gears and let it burn for about two hours, after that I dropped it in a bucket of old engine oil.
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| The gears from the blower getting heated up and lubricated at the same time I worked on the fan a couple of days earlier and replaced two fins with stainless steel blades. Here is the video from that experiment.
All pictures and video supplied by Capital Forge of Calgary, Alberta
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