RECONDITIONING A MOWER, PARTS I-II

Series: Farm Work Series

Duration: 21 min ea

Year Published: 1944

Creator: Castle Films

Format: 16mm

Sound: Sound

Description: Produced by US Office of education. Part I shows how to check, recondition and repair the cutter bar mechanism; how to remove and replace worn guards; how to sharpen the sickle sections; how to repair, sharpen, replace and straighten the guards; how to replace shoe clips and wearing plates; how to align the ledger plates; how to adjust the sickle to the proper lead; how to adjust the sickle for register. Part II shows how to remove the wheel assembly of a mower, clean and lubricate the parts, and replace worn pawls and springs; how to replace worn parts in the wheel drive; how to remove worn drive shaft bearings, and install new bearings; how to remove, clean and inspect gear parts, and re-assemble the gears.

Complete Record: Series: Farm work series Dewey number: 631.3 Audience level: sh-c-trade-adult Guide Format/cost: 16-sd-$28.38 ea Distributors / rental: Bell & Howell Company; Calhoun Company; Oregon State System of Higher Education $1.50; Ideal Pictures Corporation; Central Extension, State College, Pa. $1.50; Dav; A. H. Rice and Company; Sunray Films Company; University of Illinois $1; Visual Art Films $37.88; University of Michigan $1.50; Wilfred Naylor

Metadata Source:Educational Film Guide 1946