I have a Precision Planting machine and I can assure you that factory Kinze meters are miserable at metering seed. The finger carrier on a Kinze is very flexible and will NOT meter as well as a John Deere or PP meter. A Precision meter will let you meter a wider range of seed sizes more accurately but they do require more user attention to do so. They are not a "pour and go" meter. A John Deere finger carrier is much more rigid than the Kinze counterpart. The PP finger carrier is very similar to a Deere except the individual fingers are numbered and the "flags" are shorter than the original Deere style. Deere went to this shorter flag carrier many years ago. If I were to build the perfect meter I would use a Deere finger carrier and a PP back plate with the adjustable brush. The curved seed belt PP offers is ok as well but is not as much an improvement as the back plate is. A Skip Stop metal cover is a good improvement as well.
Original 7000 covers were made of a different kind of plastic that got extremely brittle over time. Deere subbed this part many times and finally found a compound that is much tougher. These newer covers will all fit on a 7000. Another thing that makes the covers break is drive misalignment. Each metering unit and box should go on the same row each and every year. They should be checked periodically for alignment, especially if one is no-tilling in hard or tough conditions. Mike
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Today's Featured Article - Oil Bath Air Filters - by Chris Pratt. Some of us grew up thinking that an air filter was a paper thing that allowed air to pass while trapping dirt particles of a particles of a certain size. What a surprise to open up your first old tractor's air filter case and find a can that appears to be filled with the scrap metal swept from around a machine shop metal lathe. To top that off, you have a cup with oil in it ("why would you want to lubricate your carburetor?"). On closer examination (and some reading in a AC D-14 service manual), I found out that this is a pretty ingenious method of cleaning the air in the tractor's intake tract.
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