Dad and I bought an IH #46 baler Saturday at an auction without looking over it completely. When the auctioneer dropped into scrap price dad bid on it. After it was ours I noticed needles were MIA. Knotters look clean and not wore out and the whole machine appears to be in good shape overall and always shedded. Bale chamber is clean and not rusted out. Burgh Equipment has needles for $150/pair. We're planning on completely going through the knotters and cleaning and checking all the timing before we try baling with it. I've looked at Binder Books and there are a total of 9 different manuals and parts books for this thing, which are going to be the most valuable? I was thinking Operator Manual, Set-up manual, and knotter service manual.