I just got "everything else" I needed from CC Specialties for this job. $200 including the same $10 shipping..... but I didnt see that spring listed there...
I thought there had been another supplier I used to use, couldnt find anywhere among the tractor sites I frequent... On the shipping thing it just drives me nuts to pay $10 to ship 1 small part where its the same $10 to ship a bunch of parts totalling much more. I usually try and get everything to make the shipping "worth it". but in this case that's "all I need" for this job so $10 for shipping a $20-ish part seems crazy.
that's partly why I asked about the "die springs" that places like MSC and Mc Master-Carr have.... someone somewhere had told me they are actually what these "blue" springs are, that are sold as upgraded clutch springs for our Cubs... seen that mentioned once and never again anywhere else...
I always need bolts screws nuts and such from those companies, so I could "lose" some of the shipping within an order from there if that makes sense.
That, and I KNOW that not everything from these machines HAS to come as OEM parts from International.... heck, they sourced much of those parts back in the day, themselves.... Sundstrand hydros, Firestone wheels, Briggs/Kohler engines and more.
For instance I have my own 2 post lift in my garage at hole. Made by Weaver, who sold out to Rotary lift in around 1989. There are companies that sell parts for automotive lifts, but on the bearings within the chain rollers, if I would have gone with the "lift company" it would have cost me around $800 to replace all teh bearings within this lift. I found a number on the bearings (14 of them) and discovered that it was a very common bearing to industry, including serving as the input shaft bearing on the old Ford 4 speed manual transmissions. and many industrial machines in factories. I got 14 of those bearings from known, name brand companies for a total of $160. I didnt cut a single corner, or "rig" anything.... I replaced them with exact factory issue parts sourced elsewhere. and I didnt have to go with generic white box imported from China crap to do so either.
so when I hear of a possible alternate source for something that I run across a need for "more than once or twice", I check it out.
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