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DiyDave
04-19-2008 17:34:48
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Re: Van Brunt Drill in reply to Worth Turley, 04-19-2008 13:57:49
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Is the thin piece of metal you are referring to about 2" X 2" square, more or less? If so, I think you are referring to the seed doors, they are set with a lever in the center that indexes into the sides of the same area, there will be 2 notches in one side of the area in question, and 1 on the other side. The reason for this adjustment is that different seeds are different sizes. If you want to temporarily rig this to fix a rusted out seed door, here's what I would recommend: First, be sure that the feed gears are moving, by putting a wrench on the common shaft, and making sure that the whole mechanism turns. Then see if the seed opening adjusting mechanism will slide open and closed, look at the seed gear, you will see that one side of the gear slides into a socket, if it aint doing this, you need to free up this adjustment. Once you have this sliding back and forth freely, then you can set the seed opening to the right setting for your seed. I will assume that not all of the doors are rusted out, look at the good ones, and you will see that the only opening you should have for the seed to come through is at the top right of the seed door. The solution is to use silicone caulk to goo the rusted holes shut, or use the silicone to glue new pieces of metal or plastic over the holes. Not pretty, but functional! Of course, the reason they rusted out in the first place is that someone left seed in the drill, and the malting seed produces an acid that speeds rusting, so the answer to the problem is to NEVER leave seed in the drill overnight. Vaccuum it out with a shop vac each time you are done, or each evening.
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