Method and apparatus for rebuilding vehicle axles
AssigneeAxle Surgeons, Inc.
InventorLeo C. Shiets
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for rebuilding vehicle axles permits rapid repair at the failure site. The method comprises the steps of removing the damaged terminal portion of the axle including threads and bearing surfaces, boring a concentric cylindrical cavity within the axle, cutting radially oriented passages in the axle wall which intersect the cavity, providing a replacement terminal axle portion, and inserting the terminal axle portion into the cavity and securing the replacement axle portion into the axle by weldments or other suitable means. The rebuilding apparatus includes a substantially conventional boring machine having specially configured mounting components which facilitate securement of the apparatus to various axle structures.
Claims6
A method for rebuilding vehicle axles comprising the steps of:
- removing an end adjacent portion of an axle;
- providing a boring machine capable of being secured to the remaining portion of such axle;
- securing such boring machine to such axle;
- boring a cylindrical cavity in the end of such axle;
- removing such boring machine from such axle;
- providing at least a pair of generally opposed radially oriented passages extending from said cavity to the ouside wall of such remaining axle portion;
- providing a stub axle;
- installing such stub axle in such cavity of such remaining portion;
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- securing such stub axle to such remaining axle portion by the deposition of material within such generally radially oriented passages.
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