Wa 500 Rebuild

[JDH429]

Thanks to Lil Giants suggestion and my oversight, I made a new pump mount. Also started on the cab but didnt get too far before my welder died. So it will be a few weeks until i can get anymore body work done until the welder is fixed. In the meantime i got some parts powder coated and a few other things done.



Paint cleaned off cylinders
















Made a mount for the articulating cylinders.



Parts just out of the tumbler









Chasing threads. I find this the cleanest way to deal with threads when powdercoating. Larger holes are easily plugged.





And partially assembled to get an idea of what its gonna look like. I changed the direction and am heading towards a later WA500 look with these colors, cab and the rear hood will be slanted in the rear instead of straight back.



The yellow is actually closer to the 1:1 picture than it looks here.

[RCP57]

Nice job! Too bad your welder died! It's exciting to watch a machine come together as fast as this one. I like the idea of updating to a newer more current model too. It will further separate yours from the original!

Reg

[CAT315C]

Hello JDH429

Yesterday also tried pouring a plaque with Glinder but had difficulties.

The best way I found was to make a hole in the side and then cut with a jigsaw.

Carlos