What is up????
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Topic: What is up????
Posted By: DMiller
Subject: What is up????
Date Posted: 04 Nov 2016 at 12:43pm
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Just picked up the radiators from my 7G(spare) and my 180(spare in tractor), had to go to Belle MO to find a shop of any type that would work on them. Old guy that owns the place is 73 years old, one helper who is 50. Repair shops are short to non-existent as to radiators or engine machining around here. Some prototype machine shops but most do no engine work, radiator shops from Hermann to St. Louis are mostly junk aluminum core sales shops now and do not do much if any repairs. What will happen in ten years as to finding places to fix any machines? |
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Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 04 Nov 2016 at 12:50pm
| I guess that us old iron collectors are getting few and far between. Modern society has dictated a "use and throw it out" philosophy. Darrel |
Posted By: CAL(KS)
Date Posted: 04 Nov 2016 at 1:11pm
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we only have 1 shop halfway close that can repair radiators and he is halfway in the ground ------------- Me -C,U,UC,WC,WD45,190XT,TL-12,145T,HD6G,HD16,HD20 Dad- WD, D17D, D19D, RT100A, 7020, 7080,7580, 2-8550's, 2-S77, HD15 |
Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 04 Nov 2016 at 3:29pm
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In 10 years I will be 75 and the boy will be 45.. He could care less about a 75 year old tractor.. WE have SEVERAL that he uses, that I repair.. If no parts or I am gone, I would say some chineese front wheel assist tractor would be filling the bill. There are a few younger ones on this page, but in general, its a dieing show. ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: Coke-in-MN
Date Posted: 04 Nov 2016 at 3:29pm
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big problem is LEAD in solder - lead is on hit list so anyone using it or working with it is watched closely for environmental hazards in discharge of air or waste water - Friend did them for years and then got rid of his test tanks and equipment when EPA came to his shop and started asking questions - (does them now at home - but not for public) ------------- Faith isn't a jump in the dark. It is a walk in the light. Faith is not guessing; it is knowing something. "Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." |
Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 04 Nov 2016 at 5:57pm
Not only lead, the antifreeze, the contaminants, all regulated by osha and EPA regs, who wants to deal with the all knowing burrocrazy...
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Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2016 at 6:28am
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I posed the question to our EPA rep at work, "If the lead solder, the anti-freeze residuals and remaining chemicals used in radiator shops was so bad, why are the old men and some women in their late 70's to 80's still alive and doing the work not showing signs of disease or the life peril so attributed to long term exposures to these" He would not answer, stated "they are not normal humans" and walked away. And yes, I complained to my Congressman who immediately blew that off as I want this SOB fired for being ignorant and biased to "general" people. I was a mechanic, so too my Dad and uncle, many of my family worked in steel mills or paper mills or the refineries in IL, yet all too many of them lived long term no general ills lives, how can the EPA blanket statement that all the stuff we were associated to and exposed to that never bothered us is bad for everyone? |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2016 at 2:36pm
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"Not normal humans. ..? " He is right. ......they are better than normal. Probably have work ethics that would put younger generation to shame, along with a bazillion other good qualities that are becoming extinct. And not to pick on your congress man, bit he probably just blew a little sweet smoke your way, and won't go any farther with it either. Darrel |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2016 at 3:17pm
| armchair workers Darrell! |
Posted By: LeonR2013
Date Posted: 07 Nov 2016 at 8:51pm
| I think that the new stuff they've come up with to replace the old stuff is probably worse for you than what we had. |
Posted By: Ian Beale
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2016 at 1:23am
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Darrel Re your point on elected representatives. We had one known as "The Toilet Man". To every question "He'd look into it" |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 09 Nov 2016 at 6:23am
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I love how everyone here is RIGHT ! Want it done?, right? YOU have to do it yourself.. The GUV is killing the jobs, NOT the lead... The 'throwaway' philosophy and society is well, just WRONG hmm, new rad for a D-14 is $450? guess I better keep my parts D-14 ! maybe buy a couple more, just for the rads !! Jay ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |