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California passes right-to-repair act guaranteeing seven years of parts for your phone
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How do you get replacement parts for your 1951 tractor?
'51 truck and '63 tractor here - you'd be surprised! For the majority of standardized things (seals, bolts, bulbs, etc) it's easy enough to find a cross reference table, and just order the part from napa or Grainger.
For more specialized things (like if you break an input shaft), eBay or any number if specialized stores online will have original parts that have just been sitting in a warehouse for the past 70 years. Here's one of my main sources for the truck: https://shop.midwestmilitary.com/product-category/m37/
Occasionally I do have to fabricate a replacement.
Ah, I see you beat me to it. Glad to see a fellow antique tractor enthusiast on lemmy. Here's a pic of mine. Your turn!
Nice, that's in great shape! Love the front loader, all I've got for hydraulics is the 3 point on the rear. I'll snap a pic tomorrow and add it to this comment.
They're widely available online or even in person at auto parts stores, which in rural places double as tractor parts store. My local NAPA is quite good at tractor parts. This seems almost a miracle to us but it's possible specifically because old tractors were designed for repair. They have shockingly few parts when compared to modern ones, and the parts that they do have are so, so much more common across different makes and models.
I usually have an easier time finding parts for my 1950s tractor than my fucking 2007 GMC Canyon, which also breaks more often than my 70+ year old tractor.