Enough penetrating oil and enough persuasion with a copper hammer and enouhg patience. And a good whack after you loose your patience. A tried and true recipie.
Got everything apart after being siezed up for who knows how many years. The rollers in the bearings were so pitted, I had to take a power wire brush to them. Even afterwards they are pitted so I sanded them up a bit with emery cloth...it'll make for a bit of bearing backlash, but I suppose that's not anything of consequence for a pull cart going at, say, 3 miles an hour.
The main thing is that this cart will be able to carry a good 1000 lbs or so of weight. And I'll be giving it the what-for what with a 100 gallon sandblasting pot mounted on it.
It was a lot of work to get this cart rolling again, but the cart is of the vintage that deserves the tlc.
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