New Idea corn picker

[Tireboy]

Does anybody what the new diameter is of the rubber husking roll is for a 323 New Idea corn picker?

 

[Fritz Maurer]

Does anybody what the new diameter is of the rubber husking roll is for a 323 New Idea corn picker?

The segments used to be available individually . Perhaps find some online or an implement dealer handling what's left of New Idea.

 

[Fritz Maurer]

 

[Tireboy]

Thank You for the information. I'm planing on making the disc's out of conveyor belt. Got all winter to do it.

 

[Fritz Maurer]

Thank You for the information. I'm planing on making the disc's out of conveyor belt. Got all winter to do it.

Get yourself 3/4" drive socket or maybe a piece of pipe and grind a knife edge on it, then you can cut them out with a press. That description says the rolls are 3" OD and 1-1/16 " ID.

Use a bench grinder to grind notches in them.

 

[rrlund]

I don't know how in the world anybody could get them pressed together tight enough to secure them so they won't slip.

 

[Fritz Maurer]

All the rolls are gear driven in opposite directions to their neighbor... the washers he's making don't have to transmit any power ; just be there to rotate against another powered roll.

 

[Absent Minded Farmer]

I don't know how in the world anybody could get them pressed together tight enough to secure them so they won't slip.

Those would be easy enough to do. Just get some screw rod, plate steel & a handful of hardware. Probably have it done in an afternoon.

Mike

 

[rrlund]

All the rolls are gear driven in opposite directions to their neighbor... the washers he's making don't have to transmit any power ; just be there to rotate against another powered roll.

I'm not saying it can't be done, but they don't just rotate and do nothing. If you get something stuck in them, you want the clutch to slip, not the shaft turning inside of it.

 

[Fritz Maurer]

I'm not saying it can't be done, but they don't just rotate and do nothing. If you get something stuck in them, you want the clutch to slip, not the shaft turning inside of it.

The shaft can't turn inside the rubber because it is geared to the rollers on either side of it. If something goes down between the two and it can't make it all the way through, the whole husking bed stops... either through slip clutch or broken parts.

I expect the reason for compressing them together is to prevent kernels and trash getting jammed down between the segments.

We may be saying the same basic thing though.