That looks cool. I have a little brass bristle thing like a pipe cleaner, but this is sexier

I was wondering about rust converter, but didn’t know if it was wise. But I did use a hacksaw blade, and then a grinder attachment on the dremel. Ta da!

This is as good as I’m getting it.

Tried a bunch of stuff. Awl, punch, anything a bit sharp. The awl finally worked once I had ground away a lot of the race with a Dremel (not a real Dremel)

Funny thing is, I may still end up buying a whole new (used) swingarm. If the new-to-me model has decent bearings and pivot bushes, the whole thing will cost less than two new pivot bushes.

You’ve been away too long! If everyone bum-rushed the gate it would be horrid. We have standards here, STANDARDS!

Now I wanna see Tommy Robinson try it.

And it’ll whisk eggs no problem

I tried a lil blowtorch with little to no success. I did the freezy method for wheel bearings, that helped a little.

O-KAY!

Filing and Dremel. Took a while. Now to see if the bore ca clean up okay. My main concerns are the outer regions, for the new seals.

Alt text: rusty, mangled parts, and a not-so-clean shaft they were extracted from

That looks the business

Heat didn’t help much

I’ve tried a bunch of ways. They weren’t budging. Dremel to the rescue…

I have a blind bearing kit, with slide hammer and that other sorta screw-down attachment. So far they are NAUGHTY LITTLE bstds. I need to maybe fashion a brace so I can POUND the bejaysus out of it without damaging anything.