Decided to give the Lagun some love, and treated it with a power draw bar. Gave Debbi at H&W a call, and a few days later it's here! Pretty straightforward install, with just a slight hitch common to Lagun's. In the photos you'll see that there is a bushing that stands proud of the top surface of the bearing cap. I talked to Bill at Torque Rite, and he said he actually offers a model with a counterbored base plate to account for this, but most vendors just carry the plain base plate, and then ship it with the appropriate draw bar, as was mine. As it turns out, I'm glad it worked out that way, as I'd prefer to adjust the height of the power head, as opposed to altering the hardened thrust washer/bushing. While it's a bit on the loud side, and requires shop air to be on, I'm extremely happy with it,
In this photo, you can see the bushing that stands proud of the bearing cap, and also the shoulder below the drawbar splines needs to be .050" below the surface of the bearing cap. In my case, it was .275" above it, so I made an .325" aluminum spacer to correct this.
This is the .325" thick spacer, that's counterbored on the bottom to account for the protruding bushing, with holes clearance drilled for the M6 cap screws. In the case of this Lagun FTV-1 it's 120mm in diameter, and the bolt circle is at a diameter of 105mm. The center hole is 26mm, with a 35mm x 1.5mm counterbore.
A quick check for proper fit and all is good. Bolt holes line up, and the shoulder of the drawbar is now .050" below the mounting surface.
As it turned out, the outer diameter of the power head, and the cap screw heads were such that it pretty much centered itself. Not even enough room for a lock washer, so I used blue thread locker.
Mounted the control valve off the power down feed rate cover screws, and the regulator/filter on the ram, ran the air lines, and filled the oil reservoir. Works great!
In this photo, you can see the bushing that stands proud of the bearing cap, and also the shoulder below the drawbar splines needs to be .050" below the surface of the bearing cap. In my case, it was .275" above it, so I made an .325" aluminum spacer to correct this.
This is the .325" thick spacer, that's counterbored on the bottom to account for the protruding bushing, with holes clearance drilled for the M6 cap screws. In the case of this Lagun FTV-1 it's 120mm in diameter, and the bolt circle is at a diameter of 105mm. The center hole is 26mm, with a 35mm x 1.5mm counterbore.
A quick check for proper fit and all is good. Bolt holes line up, and the shoulder of the drawbar is now .050" below the mounting surface.
As it turned out, the outer diameter of the power head, and the cap screw heads were such that it pretty much centered itself. Not even enough room for a lock washer, so I used blue thread locker.
Mounted the control valve off the power down feed rate cover screws, and the regulator/filter on the ram, ran the air lines, and filled the oil reservoir. Works great!
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