Spent most of the day completely tearing down, cleaning, and then reinstalling the taper attachment on my 56 10ee. about to take it for a spin, go to screw the rod that links the bed clamp to the taper track into its little housing on the underside and hear the dreaded sound of cast iron cracking...apparently it is tapered thread that seats into a cast iron little screw on flange bracket with a taper threaded through hole(seems like a weird design choice)and the through hole just burst when i tried(gently) to snug it down.
in a perfect world some heroic soul would sell me a spare and i would be forever grateful...but im rarely that lucky so anyone have a dimensioned drawing by any chance? is the thread 1/8" npt or something? anybody got any good tricks for accurately measuring the distance between the mounting holes and the perpendicularly(is that a word?) oriented threaded hole without being able to use the cast outer surfaces?
thanks yall!
in a perfect world some heroic soul would sell me a spare and i would be forever grateful...but im rarely that lucky so anyone have a dimensioned drawing by any chance? is the thread 1/8" npt or something? anybody got any good tricks for accurately measuring the distance between the mounting holes and the perpendicularly(is that a word?) oriented threaded hole without being able to use the cast outer surfaces?
thanks yall!