Picked up the snowblower yesterday, condition was a bit worse than I could tell in the pictures on ebay. I rebuilt 2 type 37A's that were not in this bad of condition. Since I don't have any welding equipment I will have to price the sheetmetal work, I'm in a good spot though there are fabrication shops all around here. Here are the pictures of the 1st night of tear-down, the good thing is I could use the cutoff wheel on most of the bolts, they weren't worth replacing! This may be a whole winter project so it may be some time between posts!
Type 49 snowblower rebuild
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Yardwork, my experience is with the snowblowers I had on my 212 and 216, they worked very well but didn't always throw max distance until you were going through about 4 inches of snow pretty quick. Once you get around 5 inches or more the single stage will throw about 20 - 30 ft so normally you can get it off the driveway right away. I sometimes run into the buidup problem where I back the vehicles to turn them around since that exceeds 30 ft and builds up. Not uncommon for us to receive 14 to 20 inch dumps here off of Lake Erie and I have no problem clearing that with the 200 series! But I bet I'll enjoy the hydraulic lift instead of manual lift!
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Too mamy projects going on...... anyways a little furter on the snowbolwer, not sure if I'll get it done in time to use it. Sandblasting is out of the question now as my line freezes up! So back to the wire cup!!
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Still making slow progress on the snowblower. Here's what the shelll looks like now. It will still need to have some sandblasting done before it can be painted but it's going to be quick when it warms up! Good thing I got the blade this year too!
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If it hadn't required so much welding I would've probably done that. But I'm just getting it ready to work and won't be showing it! I'm going to do some fiberglass work on it to cover the steel with the rust potholes. That should protect the steel for a long time and will be easy to touch up and paint!
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I'd like to thank everyone for the encouragement! Sometimes I think it would've been soooooo much easier just to buy one in good shape, but just a little bit of glass work, some sanding and then the painting and I'll be ready to rebuild. Might have to import some snow this summer just to test it out!!!
Actually just take a small kids plastic swimming pool, and fill it with a lot of dawn soap or some kind of suds soap, spin it up a lot so that your whole back yard is full of soap suds/bubbles, and then drive around with the blower shooting all the suds in the air. I am sure the kids would love that, and your neighbors will think you are quite crazy.:ROF
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Glockem, would need to get the jacket with long arms on order if I do something like that! Did get some more done on the snowblower. This was the last part to get cleaned with the twisted steel wire wheel. Next step will be to sandblast to get the final rust off. Here's sort of a before and after shot!
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