machinist@large
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Here's a one off....
I'm a part owner of the family farm: Dads' the major owner and investor. Five years ago, he bit the bullet and signed on the line for the first piece of new equipment on the place in over two decades, a Great Plains no till grain drill. Our old drill needed ~$20,000.00 in parts, plus who knows how much labor because it was just plain worn out. It cost us almost that much in the
poor stand we got the last time we used it that year. Imagine our surprise when a dealer offered him $17,000.00 in trade towards the new drill.
The machine has been awesome; up until this spring.
Basically, Dad couldn't change the seed rate on it; he didn't think to much about it until it was close to harvest. The crop stand wasn't right, and the yeald reflected it. When he and my uncle went to plant our winter wheat crop, they confirmed that something was wrong, and traced it down to the seed transmission.
Here's where I come in; Dad got a quote of $800.00 for parts, $200.00 in labor for the closest dealer to look at it. He tracked down a parts diagram, then asked me to look at it.
Guess what; it's a Peerless lawn mower transmission.
When I opened it up, here's what we found.....
As you can see, water got in and made a mess. I'm going to drag the thing to work so I can clean it up in the solvent tank, then figure out what parts need to be replaced.
The questions for Doc Sprocket (and anyone else interested) is what's the best place to get parts, what's the best way to water proof this thing, and what's the best grade of grease to repack it with???
Like I said, this is a one off....
I'm a part owner of the family farm: Dads' the major owner and investor. Five years ago, he bit the bullet and signed on the line for the first piece of new equipment on the place in over two decades, a Great Plains no till grain drill. Our old drill needed ~$20,000.00 in parts, plus who knows how much labor because it was just plain worn out. It cost us almost that much in the
poor stand we got the last time we used it that year. Imagine our surprise when a dealer offered him $17,000.00 in trade towards the new drill.The machine has been awesome; up until this spring.
Basically, Dad couldn't change the seed rate on it; he didn't think to much about it until it was close to harvest. The crop stand wasn't right, and the yeald reflected it. When he and my uncle went to plant our winter wheat crop, they confirmed that something was wrong, and traced it down to the seed transmission.
Here's where I come in; Dad got a quote of $800.00 for parts, $200.00 in labor for the closest dealer to look at it. He tracked down a parts diagram, then asked me to look at it.
Guess what; it's a Peerless lawn mower transmission.
When I opened it up, here's what we found.....
As you can see, water got in and made a mess. I'm going to drag the thing to work so I can clean it up in the solvent tank, then figure out what parts need to be replaced.
The questions for Doc Sprocket (and anyone else interested) is what's the best place to get parts, what's the best way to water proof this thing, and what's the best grade of grease to repack it with???
Like I said, this is a one off....
