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Ken Sterling May 26th 05 03:15 AM

Zero-turn mower Caster Modification
 
Gang,
If you care to, take a look at a modification I did to a zero-turn
riding mower front end caster setup. The original (I think) was a bad
design and I couldn't think of an easy fix. Picture *have* been
renamed THIS time G and I decreased the size of the files for
faster downloading..... hope I did it all right.
Thanks for looking - and any and all comments appreciated.
Ken.
Find them at:
http://www.metalworking.com/DropBox/caster0.txt
http://www.metalworking.com/DropBox/caster1.jpg
http://www.metalworking.com/DropBox/caster2.jpg
http://www.metalworking.com/DropBox/caster3.jpg
http://www.metalworking.com/DropBox/caster4.jpg
http://www.metalworking.com/DropBox/caster5.jpg
http://www.metalworking.com/DropBox/caster6.jpg
http://www.metalworking.com/DropBox/caster7.jpg
http://www.metalworking.com/DropBox/caster8.jpg


Larry Jaques May 26th 05 04:52 AM

On Thu, 26 May 2005 02:15:35 GMT, the inscrutable Ken Sterling (Ken
Sterling) spake:

Gang,
If you care to, take a look at a modification I did to a zero-turn
riding mower front end caster setup. The original (I think) was a bad
design and I couldn't think of an easy fix. Picture *have* been
renamed THIS time G and I decreased the size of the files for
faster downloading..... hope I did it all right.
Thanks for looking - and any and all comments appreciated.


Very nicely done. Some cleanup and paint prior to the last picture
would have done you service, though. ;)


Find them at:
http://www.metalworking.com/DropBox/caster0.txt
http://www.metalworking.com/DropBox/caster1.jpg
http://www.metalworking.com/DropBox/caster2.jpg
http://www.metalworking.com/DropBox/caster3.jpg
http://www.metalworking.com/DropBox/caster4.jpg
http://www.metalworking.com/DropBox/caster5.jpg
http://www.metalworking.com/DropBox/caster6.jpg
http://www.metalworking.com/DropBox/caster7.jpg
http://www.metalworking.com/DropBox/caster8.jpg



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Ken Sterling May 26th 05 11:26 AM

On Thu, 26 May 2005 02:15:35 GMT, the inscrutable Ken Sterling (Ken
Sterling) spake:

Gang,
If you care to, take a look at a modification I did to a zero-turn
riding mower front end caster setup. The original (I think) was a bad
design and I couldn't think of an easy fix. Picture *have* been
renamed THIS time G and I decreased the size of the files for
faster downloading..... hope I did it all right.
Thanks for looking - and any and all comments appreciated.


Very nicely done. Some cleanup and paint prior to the last picture
would have done you service, though. ;)


Point taken. I installed the casters, then took the picture, then
took the machine down into my "back 40" and beat it pretty good just
to make sure the design would hold up.... then finished the job, but
didn't take another picture. Sorry. Ken.




Find them at:
http://www.metalworking.com/DropBox/caster0.txt
http://www.metalworking.com/DropBox/caster1.jpg
http://www.metalworking.com/DropBox/caster2.jpg
http://www.metalworking.com/DropBox/caster3.jpg
http://www.metalworking.com/DropBox/caster4.jpg
http://www.metalworking.com/DropBox/caster5.jpg
http://www.metalworking.com/DropBox/caster6.jpg
http://www.metalworking.com/DropBox/caster7.jpg
http://www.metalworking.com/DropBox/caster8.jpg



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RoyJ May 26th 05 04:35 PM

I need to do the same thing on my mower deck. Was planning to use a 1"
shaft riding in a pair of 1"IDx1-1/4" OD bronze bushings. I have some
clearance problems to deal with.

Ken Sterling wrote:
Gang,
If you care to, take a look at a modification I did to a zero-turn
riding mower front end caster setup. The original (I think) was a bad
design and I couldn't think of an easy fix. Picture *have* been
renamed THIS time G and I decreased the size of the files for
faster downloading..... hope I did it all right.
Thanks for looking - and any and all comments appreciated.
Ken.
Find them at:
http://www.metalworking.com/DropBox/caster0.txt
http://www.metalworking.com/DropBox/caster1.jpg
http://www.metalworking.com/DropBox/caster2.jpg
http://www.metalworking.com/DropBox/caster3.jpg
http://www.metalworking.com/DropBox/caster4.jpg
http://www.metalworking.com/DropBox/caster5.jpg
http://www.metalworking.com/DropBox/caster6.jpg
http://www.metalworking.com/DropBox/caster7.jpg
http://www.metalworking.com/DropBox/caster8.jpg



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