[whtbaron]

Yea.... can't say any of mine were pretty, but the Stoody rods I was trying were the thicker ones and I didn't like them. To keep them from sticking you had to get the amps up high, and then burn through was an issue. I like the 1/8" rods better. It seems counter intuitive when you are trying to add more metal, but I found them a lot easier to work with. Those old ones I liked were Eutectic N700E's , but I don't see them around anymore. The last ones I got that I liked were Wearcotes from Shark Welding.... 1/8" x 14" in a 5lb package is PN 11095. None of them are cheap, but the last time I looked into spools for the MIG it was crazy expensive. I think if you go to the LIncoln site they have them listed.

 

[Daner]

I've used flux core hard surfacing mig wire. Need to change rollers in the machine. Resurfaced a set of atom jet side bands on a morris maxim. Thought I might be able to get away with welding them when on the machine but ended up taking them all off and doing it in the shop. Out of position welding doesn't seem to work with hard surfacing. It's a bit of a pain because the wire is brittle and will break off at the rollers if there is too much resistance coming out of the gun.

 

[MF cowboy]

We used to use the mig hardsurfacing at work for the TR combines rotor flights mostly.
Came to the conclusion for that straight mig welding wire was better for that application.
The hard surfacing tended to chip off sometimes for no apparent reason.
Like it didn't bond well.

 

[whtbaron]

This is what mine looked like when I was done... as I said, not pretty. Spikes were starting to show wear with 140 acres on them.... I decided to tandem disc the low spots and headlands and leave the stubble to catch snow. Of course then I opened up an old crack in the tandem disc frame that needed to be fixed...

 

[Sph75]

I'm working on an older Morris chisel plow/deep tiller.... the CP 725 ... it's a 24 ft. model with cylinders that are plumbed in series, the outside ones are down when the machine is down, the 2 inside cylinders are fully extended. I'm familiar with the annoying cultivators that used different size pistons as you go down the series, but this is different. The cylinders were starting to leak so I took them all in for new seals. Now I can't get machine back in sync, and the cylinders won't lift the machine straight off the ground for transport. The instructions for the IH air seeder made by Great Plains was also plumbed in series, but on that one you just started with all the cylinders disconnected and moved the oil down the line as each one extended. This one doesn't work that way. There are no ports to move the oil to the next cylinder, it depends on the oil on top of one piston moving the next. This leaves 2 challenges... a) you must remove all the air to prevent compression, and b) all that air needs to be replaced with the correct volume of oil or the cylinders won't move in sync. I've tried manually filling the cylinders one at a time while the machine was retracted, and will try it again with the machine jacked up off the ground and the wheels extended, but this is driving me knuckin futz.... any suggestions?? My next move might be to make T's with long hoses to raise and lower each cylinder individually with another tractor.... working with this system makes me realize why Morris was looking for receivership protection... View attachment 160932 View attachment 160933

My dad has same issues. Said the problem ended up being in the check valves.