Go to www.bocabearing.com and they will have one for sure. All you need is an accurate inside, outside, and width measurement. No need to buy anything special, their standard or economy bearings are of very good quality for our uses.

You should be able to put a fairly good weld on that pin. I don't think enough heat will penetrate all the way through to damage the pin or rod bearing. Wrap the center section in a wet cloth.

The repair shops charge around 90 dollars per hour, plus the parts are very, very expensive. If they fixed an engine, the cost would be more than buying a new machine in almost all cases. Plus we had a saying back when I had mechanic shops; "Once you touch a machine, (car, boat, airplane to weedwacker), you owned it." What we meant by that was from that day forward, if anything went wrong with the machine, it was assumed to be "your fault" and you were supposed to fix it for free.

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