>The companies that have sprung up to build parts for these ancient tractors is absolutely fascinating. Outside of perhaps some of the larger cast pieces, you can replace almost everything with new parts.
There is a literal workforce dedicated to fixing or fabricating these old parts.
Find your nearest custom machine shop. One-job shops. They exist to build or fix a million things one time, instead of production machining where they build one thing a million times.
These people are mad-geniuses at reverse-engineering and figuring out how to make things based on burnt-out or broken pieces.
Source; My father is a master machinist at one of these shops. He has worked on everything from re-building hydraulic cylinders for local guys to one-off parts for prototype cars that we can't discuss the name of to rebuilding structural supports on a bridge.
There is a literal workforce dedicated to fixing or fabricating these old parts.
Find your nearest custom machine shop. One-job shops. They exist to build or fix a million things one time, instead of production machining where they build one thing a million times.
These people are mad-geniuses at reverse-engineering and figuring out how to make things based on burnt-out or broken pieces.
Source; My father is a master machinist at one of these shops. He has worked on everything from re-building hydraulic cylinders for local guys to one-off parts for prototype cars that we can't discuss the name of to rebuilding structural supports on a bridge.