Early Ford: Changing pinion gear | Belly Tank Lakester Ep23

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The other thing I have in my garage is a cheap toaster oven from an op shop. Handy for heating up bearings before jobs like this and also good for baking paint onto small parts.

[@XenonJohnD]

Out of interest how hot do you get them?

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@@XenonJohnD For the painting? Just under 100C. That seems to work. I should probably experiment a bit more.

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I have one of those cheap presses and it's useful but needed some work. The pin on it wasn't straight so I had to cut it out, machine the ends square then re-weld it on. And the moving part was so loose in the frame it had a ton of side to side movement. I made two spacers from plastic chopping board I bolted to the sliding bit to take up the slack.

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As an informal product review, I did expect it to be a bit rubbish but actually it has been just good enough to do what I needed it to do with respect to this axle rebuild which I suppose is all I could ask of it bearing in mind the low price.