So I had a problem trying to pull my coupling hub off while doing a shaft seal. My typical H puller would not get it off. So yesterday I built a puller to hydraulically pull the hub off. Now this would have only taken an hour & a half if Covid didn’t happen. Trying to get plate was a pain. I stopped by Metals4U but they were only doing call in & then pick up later in the day, which wasn’t an option. So I went to Fulton in Denton & picked up remnant steel from them. I picked up 1/4 & 3/8 plate. I cut it using my Oxy Acetylene torch, I didn’t feel like breaking out the plasma. I used the 3/8 for the back/base, then 1/4 for the sides. The premise is to make the pocket just large enough for the RAM to fit & then able to slide shims into place. I used MIG wire to space the ram around the pocket I was going to weld. I welded it all up
This was the H puller I was using. That’s a 20” crescent for reference.
It took 7.5 tons.