Woreout sprocket????

big tee

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If I turn this sprocket around can I still use it? This was on a 1480 combine on ag-talk. The guy said his monitor light wouldn't go out---Tee
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Used to see that often, growing up. My Uncle didn't think chains wore out and continued to run them as they "rode the tips" of the sprockets, eventually wearing them out like the one in the photo. Only then did the chains (and the sprockets) get replaced!
 
Come on, it's got one good tooth left yet, should make one more harvest......

I have 2 drive sprockets for the wheels on an old owattona swather look like that. Every year I said last year I use this no point replacing them, that went on for 10 years with my 5-20 acres of small grains.... it gets comical what a person talks themselves into....

Paul
 
Not too reliable and a little hard on chains when they get like that......they have to be tight as a belt to do anything but slip.......probably time to consider replacing it.......
 
Twenty years or so ago my father in law had a low hour Gleaner combine burn up, insurance company got him one just like it out of central Illinois with sprockets like that.
 
Place I used to work, I changed out a big double sprocket, about a 36" if I remember correctly.

It was in about the same shape, wondered why they couldn't get any life out of the chains!

Old man that worked in maintenance made me keep it. "One of these days..." we're going to weld that up and (hand) grind out some new teeth on it.

Never happened, after he was gone it went to scrap.
 
A nine tooth roller chain sprocket? How many teeth were on it originally? Twelve teeth is considered the minimum and 15 or more are recommended to for smooth shaft speeds.
 
I have a barrel of Owatonna swather parts, planetaries and other big stuff. Maybe those sprockets, too. If so, you can have them. Might be making a trip to Mankato- guy there has busted gearbox with good gears that might match my snowblower.
 
Hi Fred, the sad part is If he hadn't retired from farming and had an accident where he lost an arm. I know a dutch man that would of quite happily done that. He had an MF brush cutter dropped the bearings about 3 years before he retired. It smashed lots of teeth off the bevel gears. He actually took the welder built up the missing teeth, and re ground the profile with a 4 1/2 inch grinder. That cutter still worked good right up to sale day and made $500. I needed one for a tractor I was selling but not that one L.O.L.
Regards Robert
 

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