I have my work cut out for me- rebuilding Clipper 47 cleaner

rockyridgefarm · Jan 15, 2017

I bought this cleaner last summer on an online auction. It spent a lot of time outside and most of the wood is rotted beyond use. I'm disassembling it at a neighbor's place and will be rebuilding it. We think the frame is white oak and the shoe is maple. We're going to make it into a three screen cleaner since we have to rebuild it anyway. Hope I can have it rebuilt in time to make a little money custom cleaning seed in the area.

If anyone has one in bad shape, I need some metal parts.

4520BW · Jan 15, 2017

I can't help ya on any used parts but I have
a newer clipper (metal) and I was able get
new parts from the factory. I believe it's
called A.T. Ferrell. They are located in
northern Indiana.

mtf · Jan 15, 2017

Keep us posted. I would love if my 27 had 3 screens. What does
your brush drive look like? Nathan

Jon Hagen · Jan 15, 2017

I have a 47D with top air that has never seen a day in the weather, built in 63, varnished wood frame looks good enough to be furniture.
Clipper is proud to still supply parts for machines built nearly 100 years ago, so unless things have changed in the last 10 years, I could get most anything I needed factory direct.
Give them a call if you cant find it from a parts machine.

http://www.atferrell.com/clipper

rockyridgefarm · Jan 15, 2017

The brushes are poor, but the drive unit and metal parts are good. I know where there's a rotten 298 sitting that I might be able to buy another brush unit off of. I haven't decided if I'm going to put brushes back in, or put in ball trays yet.

I'm also hoping to get a roll feed hopper off the same machine. It'll also be rotten, but I'll rebuild it too.

Thanks for the point about going to AT Ferrell for parts, I knew that they still offer parts for newer units, but they can get spendy. There's also Commodity traders in Trilla, IL. I'd prefer to get another bad one for a donor.

This would have been quite a unit back in the day. I wish I could have seen it before it got neglected. Here's a pic from the auction -

Jon Hagen · Jan 15, 2017

6-10 ? years ago ,the factory had new brush assembly's available for my 47D, I still have two new ones in my parts stash. I bought them to replace the worn ones in the machine when they failed, but it never got to that point. All the parts I bought from them, like brushes and screens, were all new stuff constructed in their shop, not NOS parts.

Unless things at AT Farrel have changed drastically in the last few years, I suspect anything you need from them is readily available.

P I Pete · Jan 15, 2017

I have a clipper M2B fanning mill bought it from neighbor,didn't have a bagger unit so I built a boot to fit where grain came out, cut a 4" auger as needed got the drive parts from A T Farrell in Bluffton, In. Got it all together, works fine. Pete

billmart · Jan 16, 2017

wow, hard to believe,Clipper is still in the seed cleaner business!
clipper link

I have my work cut out for me- rebuilding Clipper 47 cleaner

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