Hi all, i'm Selmir from Bosnia. I'm 27 years old, mechanical engineer and since few days master of science. I hava an idea about presentig some various projects i've made in last few years in this topic.
My most recent project is MF14 baler.
Few weeks ago i bought MF 14 medium pressure baler in relativly bad condition (my sister bought it in Germany and sent it by a truck to me in Bosnia). Baler was parked for 10 years so there was a lot of dust, junk and rust to clean.
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First i had to wash it with Kaercher miniwash (130bar pressure, 2kW engine), it's really incredible how much dirt was in there. I found like 2kg of nuts, believe that whole colony of rats or squirrels lived inside it.
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Next i had to dismantle everything i could in order to clean it with angle grinder.
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In left cordbox corosy made some serious damage, so i had to replace some parts. I cut out all damaged places and replaced it with 1mm plate.
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After some serious cleaning with grinder, i started with painting with speciall anti-corosy paint. It's not very nice, but it stops corosy.
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All gears and chain are carefully cleand and later covered with some grease. I checked oil level in gearbox, there's enough oil inside (SAE 90).
I painted everything,really everything in order to protect the baler from coroding. Unfortunately i'll have to keep it outside (covered with some plastic). After that, i mounted all parts together, replaced some pins and screws, had to do some welding.
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In the end, i painted all visible parts with red paint, i't didn't end up quite well (i had to do all the painting by hand with brush).
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Anyhow, it looks much better and it's protected. Now i have to solve problem with left knoter, it forms the knot but won't release it. Have no idea how to fix it, but i'll do my best
Next time (tomorow), i'll show you some of my other projects.
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