Gehl HK108 sickle assembly?

WellWorn

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I picked up this HK108 last year, and doing a favor for a neighbor cutting a neglected field, picked up a rock, busted a guard and popped loose a section. I pulled the bar last night and it looks like the rivet hole on the loose section are worn (oblong and big), and not a recent event. I'm thinking the 'slide' / section bar should be replaced, but a cursory look in catalogs I have and around the web aren't showing replacements.

Any suggestions, other than replace the haybine? There must be something reasonably close in length (117", 2 1/16 hole centers) that would work.
 
You can weld the hole shut, and re-drill. Looking for a new bar that the sections mount on...that"s called a "knife back".
 
Thanks, JMS. I wasn't sure that welding wouldn't damage the 'temper' of the bar - it seems semi-hard. I called Webb's Sickle Service today, and sent some pictures and measurements. Hoping they can come up with at least a knife back. I can make this sickle work for now (heat a long rivet and swage it in), but I'd like to make the haybine reliable. It isn't pretty to look at, but still otherwise mechanically quite sound.
 

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