Hoping with all the preperations we won’t need any of them. Am worn out. Think I’m gonna take a lie down for a bit, so till later folks…

Got the side wall of the 10×20 and the west end awning of the 10×10 battened down and all the stuff outside moved to dry locations.

After lunch went to WW and got some sandwich meat for lunch tomorrow, and if the coming storm knocks power out, supper tonight.

Cleaned it up, chucked it into the lathe, ans took about .001″ off an area on one side about an inch long. Fits and works smooth now.

As it moved up kept adding stuff below the rod till it forced the ram out of the hole. Took about 4 hours today to get the pin and ram out.

Turning a pice of rod down to fit through the hole below the anvil and using the weight of the shear to force the ram up.

Got the ram out finally. Ended up putting the lever arm back on and forcing it to move several times, than taking the arm back off.

Then took a break. Been at it for 2+ hours already this morning. Amazing how much time gets eaten up working on old equipment.

Turned a piece of old shaft down on one end to fit the hole in the ram and have managed (again with much pounding) to rotate it half a turn.

Mainly removed the enlarged ends where it had been pounded on both by me and someone else who treated it much worse than I did.

After much filing and pounding got the pin out and lever off. Put the 3 jaw chuck in the lathe and turned the pin down just enough to fit.

Have oiled, filed and sanded the lever pin & got it moving with much reluctance. Going to let it soak overnight and see how it is tomorrow.

Not sure what treatment it had prior to my buying it 7 or 8 years ago, but it hasn’t been treated very well in many years.

Actually have to do that anyway but the wrong way around may be the reason it’s so hard to get to moving. Along with 3+ years in the rain.

Just noted a broken off bolt on one side. The ram has a flat but it’s on the opposite side. So have to get the lever out to remove the ram.