Allow them to cool off at room temperature. Then slowly take off material on the interior with the lathe. The original bearings have an outside lip that keeps them from falling off inside the auger. I left a lip about 1/16" on the inside of the sleeve so that the smaller bearing does not fall inside either.
Lip on the inner side of the sleeve.
And they fit nice and tight. Still, I'll use some blue thread locker when installed.
If you are wondering why one of the adjusting bracket disks has four holes and the other many, it's because I got mixed up and gave Dave the matching one now we both have mismatched disks does a number on my ocd
@Eugen I though the one with all the holes was for fine adjusting the chain . Never thought anything more about it . I have not put it back together yet if you want match the sets.
DavidBarkey wrote: ↑Sun Nov 06, 2022 5:19 am @Eugen I though the one with all the holes was for fine adjusting the chain . Never thought anything more about it . I have not put it back together yet if you want match the sets.
I believe that the one with many holes is indeed for finer adjustments, but I think it's meant to do that on both sides, perhaps a newer style; I'm sure of it because I know my newer caster had two of those brackets on. I had two casters, one older and one newer. As I was scrambling to get one working well enough to blow snow last Winter, I kinda mixed things just because I was rushing. So you ended up with one of the end brackets with many holes, and one with four holes. You also got the auger from the newer caster; I wanted to use the auger you have but one of the bearings was a metric one, bad fit (previous owner put it there). I wanted to get the bearings from the old auger but I couldn't get them out so I just used the whole old auger. There were a lot of things going on at the time, and I tended to rush everything. Mind you, I ended up not even being able to use the snowcaster, because the 444 on which I installed it refused to start anymore. Blew snow with the walk behind all winter Hopefully things will be different this Winter.
Eugen wrote: ↑Wed Nov 16, 2022 11:38 am
The lady in white caught me with my pants down. Figuratively speaking of course! . Literally, my snow caster is still disassembled!
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So is mine . But at least all the parts are in the lean too of the back of the shop .
DavidBarkey wrote: ↑Wed Nov 16, 2022 1:46 pm
I am not nice . I am a pussy and don't like digging stuff out of the snow .
I'm not tough either, just didn't get around to doing anything about this. I feel worse about having to replace the rear brake pads on the truck and
I want to shoot the steering pump for whining all of a sudden!
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now we both have mismatched disks 
does a number on my ocd 
I have not put it back together yet if you want match the sets.
so I just used the whole old auger. There were a lot of things going on at the time, and I tended to rush everything. Mind you, I ended up not even being able to use the snowcaster, because the 444 on which I installed it refused to start anymore. Blew snow with the walk behind all winter 
. Literally, my snow caster is still disassembled! 
