- 2 Hopper arms, Right and Left,
- 1 Hopper bottom,
- 1 Hopper rod with thumb nut,
- 2 Feed tables,
- 2 Feed table legs,
- 2 Band cutter stands and bolts,
- 1 Large crank shaft,
- 1 Grain auger with 1223 T. pulley and 1154 T., Box,
- 1 Tailings auger,
- 1 Elevator spout,
- 1 Elevator shake arm, complete,
- 1 Set fish-backs, for straw-rack,
- 1 Elevator pulley, 529 T.,
- 1 Beater pulley, 6-inch 1254 T., or 4-inch 1255 T.,
- 1 Elevator drive pulley 1673 T.,
- 1 Crank pulley to drive grain auger 1605 T.,
- 1 Cylinder pulley to drive crank 4-inch 973 T., or 6-inch 1085 T.,
- 1 Cylinder pulley to drive fan 1347 T., 1348 T., or 1633 T.,
- 1 Fan pulley, 1244 T., or 1231 T.,
- 1 Belt tightener, complete, with pulley,
- 1 Belt reel, 5016 T., or 1642 T., with crank and bolt,
- 4 Shoe sieves,
- 4 Shoe rods, with nuts and washers,
- 1 Conveyor extension,
- 1 Sheet iron tail board,
- 2 Tail board castings 1654 T., and 1655 T.
In addition to these are the parts of the stacker.
As each manufacturer furnishes all needed directions for putting the parts together, we will suppose the separator is in working condition.
A new machine should be set up and run for a couple of hours before attempting to thresh any grain. The oil boxes should be carefully cleaned, and all dirt, cinders, and paint removed from the oil holes. The grease cups on cylinder, beater and crank boxes should be screwed down after being filled with hard oil, moderately thin oil being used for other parts of the machine. Before putting on the belts, turn the machine by hand a few times to see that no parts are loose. Look into the machine on straw rack and conveyor.
First connect up belt with engine and run the cylinder only for a time. Screw down the grease cup lugs when necessary, and see that no boxes heat. Take off the tightener pulley, clean out oil chambers and thoroughly oil the spindle. Then oil each separate bearing in turn, seeing that oil hole is clean, and that pulley or journal works freely. The successive belts may then be put on one at a time, until the stacker belt is put on after its pulleys have been oiled. Especially note which belts are to run crossed—usually the main belt and the stacker belt. You can tell by noting which way the machinery must run to keep the straw moving in the proper direction.
Oiling on the first run of a machine is especially important, as the bearings are a trifle rough and more liable to heat than after machine has been used for some time. It is well to oil a shaft while it runs, since the motion helps the oil to work in over the whole surface.
The sieves, concaves, check board and blinds must be adjusted to the kind of grain to be threshed. When they have been so adjusted the machine is ready to thresh.
SETTING SEPARATOR.
It is important that the machine be kept perfectly steady, and that it be level from side to side, though its being a little higher or lower at one end or the other may not matter much. If the level sidewise is not perfect the grain will have a tendency to work over to one side. A spirit level should be used.
