Lift pin repair 101!
I was sitting on a bucket, looking at this Mutt's frame, trying to decide how I wanted the foot-controls to work. I envisioned a few possible methods of accomplishing my goals but decided that I should make sure that all the other junk down there didn't present a space-restriction. I went to assemble the lift shaft, which was siezed in the lift-handle that I didn't want. Spiral-pin wouldn't budge... bent my drift, darnit! Since the lift handle was shot anyway, I took the shaft and handle to the bandsaw, which chewed the end of the shaft right off. Since I wasn't going to be raising or lowering any FRONT implements with the lift, I didn't need the handle segment sticking out anyway.
Went to slide the lift arms onto the shaft, and noticed that the non-lift-cylinder side had a pretty badly worn-off pin...
Hmmm... I hate it when something stupid holds up my progress... I don't have another one, so I'll fix this one. First, look in the scrap-bucket for a piece of rod-stock closest to the original pin's size... boy, am I glad I parted out all them junk printers!
Cut off the end of the old pin...
Bore out the inner old-edge...
Cut a chunk out of an old printer shaft, and turn it down to proper OD, drill it for a cotter-pin...
Weld the pin in
Not bad
Hit it with some paint... Done!