Center Pins

[John Woodworth]

The thing that is being failed to be recognized here is the enviornment these bushings and pins are working under, these machines are not farm tracktors and are built differently and built accordinly to the stress and enviornment they will be working under, mainly water, dirt and whatever else makes irs way to them besides the tremendos stress placed on them under their normal work enviornment, Anybody woy has ever been around equipment in the construction industry known and will tell you what bushings for machinery are to be made from and if you are wearing pins and bushings you had better get a new greese gun or someone to greese for you.

This can be debated forever and you can do whatever you want but cutting corners does not work and can lead to more costlier repairs later. Use the correct material to start with and do your greasing and you wont have to worry about pin and bushing wear, the pins and bushing are not ment to be a sacrifical point to be replaced every few years and if you are you better change your ways.

[StephenRice]

The thing that is being failed to be recognized here is the enviornment these bushings and pins are working under, these machines are not farm tracktors and are built differently and built accordinly to the stress and enviornment they will be working under, mainly water, dirt and whatever else makes irs way to them besides the tremendos stress placed on them under their normal work enviornment, Anybody woy has ever been around equipment in the construction industry known and will tell you what bushings for machinery are to be made from and if you are wearing pins and bushings you had better get a new greese gun or someone to greese for you.

This can be debated forever and you can do whatever you want but cutting corners does not work and can lead to more costlier repairs later. Use the correct material to start with and do your greasing and you wont have to worry about pin and bushing wear, the pins and bushing are not ment to be a sacrifical point to be replaced every few years and if you are you better change your ways.

Where has this failed to be recognized, John?  Unless I am missing something, I think the issues you brought up are the sorts of things that we have been discussing all along.