Re: [ihc] Melling SII oil pump email

[bearbvd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Greg Hermann)]

At 4:14 PM 7/27/04, Allan Ericson wrote:
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>> Scout/Light Line Dist has provided Melling (several years ago) with  the
>> sales history of the orginal Scout Oil Pumps dating back to when
>International
>> sold them before we took over. I do not understand what these  people are
>trying
>> to do as the numbers are not there to recover the tooling  costs for such
>a
>> project. I also gave the name of the original manufacture of  the original
>oil
>> pumps to see if they could get the tooling.  ???????????????
>>
>> JG
>> Scout/Light Line Dist. Inc.
>>
>
>Technology has changed.

Yes, it has.

New pump bodies could be made CNC out of billet with quite low tooling costs !!

Greg

A new way to make this pump by modifying the
>existing production item may be feasible, whereas it was not reasonable to
>do this before. I believe it may be possible to modify the Loadstar pump and
>pickup oil pump by making a new tube for the pickup and cutting down a
>section of the pump body. A new casting would not be necessary. As a more
>reasonable solution, a kit could be made to this end. The tube would
>probably not be expensive to make, and the rest of the parts would be
>standard, off the shelf items. As this would involve cutting, and MAYBE
>drilling and tapping the current production unit, a kit might be a better
>way to go. However, if it were feasible to do this at the factory, parts
>"cleaning and deburring" might be something that could be integrated into
>the process for next to nothing.
>
>I doubt that many of these pumps would be needed (as John has already
>pointed out), though, and it is certainly likely that no amount of change
>can be justified for such a small market, even if it's an easy change. I
>have often toyed with the idea of making such modifications myself, but
>there always seems to be a more pressing project. Now that I have an SV
>sitting out with the pan off and another one with a scout II pump in place,
>I might just make a few measurements and see what happens. Wouldn't it be
>funny if one of the digesters with a machine shop could start selling
>modified pumps or kits?
>
>-Allan