Handsome Devil
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Just picked up but have not used this NH 489. My old haybine was a 469 so you know I run antiques. Bought service and operators manual. Between looking for obvious places and checking against the book I found my zerk fittings to grease. On the reel the drive end has a hole for a zerk fitting but none there {I have plenty of them I can install} and the other end doesn't appear to be drilled for one but shows one in the book. Both are shown on a small pipe to make greasing easier as the guards made it difficult to get down into the area. Q: did NH do away with those grease fittings or did previous owner neglect to fix them after they came off? I am going back out and see if I can get one in the hole I did find and take a flash lite and see if I can find any hole in the bearing housing on the non drive side. Thanks in advance. Need to check my gear boxes and hope for the best. Again thanks. Regards, John.