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Post by generalchaos on Jul 29, 2020 10:56:28 GMT -6
What's the easiest way to advance the tailings paddle chain on a 9600?
I'm replacing it and am trying to find the connecting link. On my 7720 I could turn the combine by hand. Not so easy on the 9600. |
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Post by generalchaos on Jul 29, 2020 15:42:44 GMT -6
Never mind. Got er done.
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Post by SWMan on Jul 29, 2020 22:07:37 GMT -6
Atta boy! Always a good feeling when you ask for help or a wrench or something like that, then are able to fix it anyways before someone gets back to you.
Really should tell us how you did it though for the next guy, or when you look back in 5 years wondering how you did it 5 years ago...
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Post by generalchaos on Jul 30, 2020 7:09:15 GMT -6
I took the bottom chain off and turned the sprocket with a wrench. When I found the connecting link a removed and added the new chain.
Then I had my son turn the top sprocket with a wrench while I fed in new chain and rolled up old chain.
Would have been a breeze except for all the mosquitoes in my shed.
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Post by northernfarmer on Aug 7, 2020 7:58:56 GMT -6
It was a while ago now that I had changed out a return paddle chain on a 9600 and the main reason for posting this was to point out it can be done without help and I don't recall it being all that bad, in fact I was only turning the assembly by rotating the chain by pulling the paddles with my hand down at the bottom hatch. First get the small drive chain off down at the bottom end and rotate the paddles until the master link is exposed and get that undone. Then lay out the new elevator chain oriented properly and now I can't recall which direction I went as I think I fed it on the upper side and connected the new and old together with a master link and fed the new one in as I pulled the old one out and dealing with the bulk of the chain/paddles as I went is the more awkward part of the project. One thing to note about the new chain, it does not set the lower elevator drive sprocket shaft up as high as when one pulls a half link out on a used chain so it doesn't take as long as one would assume until you run out of adjustment and have to pull the first half link out.
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