lastcowboy32
Well-known Member
So,
I gave our NH 276 its pre-season once over.
To setup this story, I have to say... I have to store mine outside for the winter. It has a built in knotter cover...but I don't tarp it or add any other shelter. Before I did, last fall, I cleaned everything thoroughly, let it dry for a day or two of dry weather; and then sprayed down all of the knotter assembly with penetrating oil ...and then WD-40.
This spring, before I got it going. I again sprayed the knotter assembly with penetrating oil.
Mostly because I had stuck grease fittings last year.
This turned out to be a blessing and a curse.
Blessing: All of my grease fittings took grease this year during spring tuneup. That's a first for me.
Curse: The penetrating oil did its thing and penetrated the twine holding disks. Slippery twine holding disks are not a fun thing to have.
They spin great. But...between slick poly twine and a little oil between the disks.... it took about twenty bales of usage through the baler to get the knotter on the right to reliably hold the twine.
Otherwise, it would pull out during the wiper arm cut.
When I looked at the end that pulled out, it was soaked with oil.
After a enough twine had been put through to soak up the oil...we baled today without incident.
But not before taking Old's common advice of sharpening up the wiper arm knife. I noticed that it was a little dull, and probably "knot" helping my situation with the twine coming loose.
********* Here is a related question *************
Is there a way to easily get the wiper arms out of the 276 knotters by undoing the knotter hold-down bolts and rotating the knotter up?
I couldn't manage to get mine out, and I decided it was more expedient to sharpen the wiper arm knife with a file; while it was still in the knotter.
It worked, but it would be a heck of a lot easier to sharpen that knife with the wiper arm out.
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Thanks
I gave our NH 276 its pre-season once over.
To setup this story, I have to say... I have to store mine outside for the winter. It has a built in knotter cover...but I don't tarp it or add any other shelter. Before I did, last fall, I cleaned everything thoroughly, let it dry for a day or two of dry weather; and then sprayed down all of the knotter assembly with penetrating oil ...and then WD-40.
This spring, before I got it going. I again sprayed the knotter assembly with penetrating oil.
Mostly because I had stuck grease fittings last year.
This turned out to be a blessing and a curse.
Blessing: All of my grease fittings took grease this year during spring tuneup. That's a first for me.
Curse: The penetrating oil did its thing and penetrated the twine holding disks. Slippery twine holding disks are not a fun thing to have.
They spin great. But...between slick poly twine and a little oil between the disks.... it took about twenty bales of usage through the baler to get the knotter on the right to reliably hold the twine.
Otherwise, it would pull out during the wiper arm cut.
When I looked at the end that pulled out, it was soaked with oil.
After a enough twine had been put through to soak up the oil...we baled today without incident.
But not before taking Old's common advice of sharpening up the wiper arm knife. I noticed that it was a little dull, and probably "knot" helping my situation with the twine coming loose.
********* Here is a related question *************
Is there a way to easily get the wiper arms out of the 276 knotters by undoing the knotter hold-down bolts and rotating the knotter up?
I couldn't manage to get mine out, and I decided it was more expedient to sharpen the wiper arm knife with a file; while it was still in the knotter.
It worked, but it would be a heck of a lot easier to sharpen that knife with the wiper arm out.
****************************
Thanks