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Wow what a great forum this is ! All the information hints and tips I have received just for the sake of asking are fantastic . It seems like the advice is to use stick for this job . I have a small stick set which I started on but got the mig because I thought it may be more versatile . I also got ...

Thank you all for your help and advice . This job is down for the summer months as trying to do it outside when it's blowing a gale is not an option ive got no where undercover to work . I'm going to start sorting out materials now I know what to buy . Thanks for the welding tips very useful as this...

Sorry just reread your post and picked up high tensile steel . What thickness and would that be the only material to use ?

Thank you both for your advice . It seems that the best way to go would be to remove the bottom of the bucket completely . Good advice re the extra braces to weld to . I just hope this is not beyond my ability as I'm still very much a novice welder . The bucket is on the verge of being unusable anyw...

I have a thwaites Orion dumper and it's starting to wear very thin in the bottom of the bucket . It's already got a few holes so I pretty much have to do something before it goes completely . I don't really want to try and patch the holes because of the thinness of the metal I don't think that would...

I would urge you not to scrap it . Much better to sell it on if you don't want to use it . Someone else might be glad to restore it and use it . I make you right about the convenience of a modern mini digger but for a bit of old lugging you will find these old diggers hard to beat . I use mine in co...

I've got to replace the seals in one of the stabiliser legs on my 3c 11 . After looking at what you had to do to get the pins out I'm really not looking forward to it ! Looking at the way you did achieved it has given me some ideas and pointers if the pins play up . Don't think I've ever read a post...

Àhh now the pictures are clearer and in context I can see the box is slightly different to mine . I definitely have a newage gearbox and my dumper is definitely an Orion . However as I said most of these gearboxes have basically the same layout so I would wait until you split it and you may be able ...

Sods law they call that !!!!

Are the internals in the box the same as the 40m Manuel that you have already downloaded ? Maybe wait and see when you get it opened up . These old dumpers often had parts interchanged over the years so the gearbox might have been swapped . Think the basic internal layout of gearboxes was very simil...