Hi, first post.
I have a pair of old NH57 mounted ROLABAR rakes, and I live in Australia.
NH had a manufacturing operation here for around 3-4 decades that is now closed. They made these 2 rakes, which I bought years ago from 2 different owners quite a distance apart from each other. The plan being to restore one to as new, using the other as a parts donor. I'm at the painting stage now. I thought they were identical to the rest of the world's NH57 rakes but there is a difference. The Tine bar bearings...
When I look at the NH parts manuals and every webstore where I can find a listing for this part (481387) shows a tine bar bearing that has an OD on 47mm or 1.85". Searching AG parts stores shows that this is a common tine bar bearing size used by a bunch of side delivery rakes / windrowers.
However both my rakes use a bearing with a bigger OD (52mm), not 2" (50.8mm) but 52mm. Same 3/4"bore etc and looks similar, but has that bigger OD. I have read somewhere that the old CASE 281 side rakes had the same bearing, but can't confirm. I have a bunch of bearing PN's (NT 900537, IHC ST505, etc) none of which score a hit when I search for them.
The nearest available bearing I can find is a fairly common AG bearing called a 205KRP2. Its inner race is only 21mm wide vs. the 26.75 mm of mine, and the outer race is 15mm vs. the 17mm of mine. It would probably work, if I put a 5mm spacer over the stud, but that is as good as I can do right now.
So my questions are: Does anybody have a source of these bearings? Perhaps a CASE 281 (vintage rake) parts stockist?
If not does anyone here (OZ based I assume) have some knowledge of these locally made NH rakes and who might carry parts for them? The closest NH dealers couldn't care less, all they want to is to sell and service new 4WD cab tractors...
Thanks in advance...
I have a pair of old NH57 mounted ROLABAR rakes, and I live in Australia.
NH had a manufacturing operation here for around 3-4 decades that is now closed. They made these 2 rakes, which I bought years ago from 2 different owners quite a distance apart from each other. The plan being to restore one to as new, using the other as a parts donor. I'm at the painting stage now. I thought they were identical to the rest of the world's NH57 rakes but there is a difference. The Tine bar bearings...
When I look at the NH parts manuals and every webstore where I can find a listing for this part (481387) shows a tine bar bearing that has an OD on 47mm or 1.85". Searching AG parts stores shows that this is a common tine bar bearing size used by a bunch of side delivery rakes / windrowers.
However both my rakes use a bearing with a bigger OD (52mm), not 2" (50.8mm) but 52mm. Same 3/4"bore etc and looks similar, but has that bigger OD. I have read somewhere that the old CASE 281 side rakes had the same bearing, but can't confirm. I have a bunch of bearing PN's (NT 900537, IHC ST505, etc) none of which score a hit when I search for them.
The nearest available bearing I can find is a fairly common AG bearing called a 205KRP2. Its inner race is only 21mm wide vs. the 26.75 mm of mine, and the outer race is 15mm vs. the 17mm of mine. It would probably work, if I put a 5mm spacer over the stud, but that is as good as I can do right now.
So my questions are: Does anybody have a source of these bearings? Perhaps a CASE 281 (vintage rake) parts stockist?
If not does anyone here (OZ based I assume) have some knowledge of these locally made NH rakes and who might carry parts for them? The closest NH dealers couldn't care less, all they want to is to sell and service new 4WD cab tractors...
Thanks in advance...