Kewanee disc?

blainservices · Sep 24, 2015

I inherited a disc from Grandpa. I believe it is Kewanee 100 series. I am trying to rebuild it. Some of the bearing housings are worn. Anyone have a source for these?

DeltaRed · Sep 24, 2015

Dont know about thew "houseing", but the bearings are available from Shoup Manufactureing.

Leroy · Sep 24, 2015

No they are not. That is one complete seeled unit that new bearings cannot be put in the housings, have to buy complete units and are almost impossible to get. Were batyears ago when we got rid of ours about getting bearings. No if it was a newer model Shoup has them but not for the 100 series. Have no idea how many of the housings I had to throw away because not repairable.

Eugene Beckham · Sep 24, 2015

Blaine tell your granpa you love him but this disc is going to the scrap yard. I'm almost 70 and my dad bought a new 10' in 1960 for $ 565.00 that S.O.B
would eat more bearings than a hungry SOW in the corn crib,good cutting disc but did'nt level very good at $120.00 per bearing unload that sucker before
it bankrupts you. Good Luck WEST ALTON RIVER RAT

blainservices · Sep 24, 2015

Leroy, any idea on where to get complete units at?

Wonder if a machinist could modify the housing to accept modern sealed bearings?

blainservices · Sep 24, 2015

Eugene you are probably right, but the money will be spent on something anyways. LOL

JD Seller · Sep 24, 2015

My brother has a disk like that. We took the housings to a local machinist and had them bored to take regular disk bearings. The new bearings are less then $25 a holder.

hd6gtom · Sep 25, 2015

Blaine I have a 13' disk and never had bearing problems with it. I have used it for the past 20+ years. I think I have a newer complete unit with bearings in the barn somewhere. it doesn't look like the old units but it supposedly bolts up. If I can remember I will see if I can get a name off it and post back tomorrow. I havn't seen it in years but I think I know where it is.

Gleanerk2 · Sep 25, 2015

Shoup did have that bearing doesnt it have two snap rings to hold the
bearing in we had a 500 series and a 700 series with that housing at
one time

Leroy · Sep 25, 2015

No snap rings, housing molded to bearings.

blainservices · Sep 27, 2015

hd6gtom that would be great. it would be nice to convert them to the sealed type bearings.

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