Repairing a worn excavator boom bore - GIF

**Altair** · Sep 6, 2023, 11:27 AM

Repairing a worn excavator boom bore.

Previously:

Line boring a suspension rod - GIF
Homemade line boring machine - video

**12L14** · Sep 6, 2023, 03:01 PM

It doesn't count - as long I don't see Frank S approval seal

**Frank S** · Sep 6, 2023, 08:57 PM

Originally Posted by 12L14

It doesn't count - as long I don't see Frank S approval seal

That's pretty much the way it is done. A royal Pain to make 100 circular passes inside a small bore with a handheld mig gun. Not any more fun welding up with stick rod either.
Now they have these great machines

**baja** · Sep 12, 2023, 08:12 AM

Originally Posted by Altair

Repairing a worn excavator boom bore.

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Previously:

Line boring a suspension rod - GIF
Homemade line boring machine - video

When I moved in to my place 25 years ago my neighbor had two Cat scrapers that he was doing this on. He made the boring tool feed out of a satellite dish drive.