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The Internet | Spreading fertiliser last week, or was it the week before? Anyways, one of the discs wasn't spinning and made an unpleasant noise. It's pto driven via a little 90 degree gearbox, the bearings fail from time to time which is what I thought had happened. Upon disassembly, it turned out that the bearing had been spinning in the housing wearing it away so the gears couldn't mesh.
I looked in the parts book and the 90 degree gearbox was available as a whole with the gear, bearings, everything I needed to just bolt it on an go, easy.
A call to the dealer with the part number and all seemed well.
It was going to be a few days, so I robbed a gearbox of the old machine which belongs to us to keep the wheels turning.
The dealer rang me while I spreading and busy and said they can't get the parts individually, which I took to mean the parts for the individual 90 gearbox. No matter, says I, I need the whole thing anyway, and thought no more of it.
It was delivered on Wednesday, I collected it and installed it Thursday and all was well. Then HQ rang and asked if I'd ordered a gearbox, because they just had the invoice and I normally message him when I ordered anything. Yes, that was me.
Out of interest, says I, how much was it, expecting 7 or 8 hundred quid. Turns out it was 3,000 quid plus £250 for shipping! Ouch! Still, the machine should be good for another 7 or 8 seasons now...
A photo of the gearbox in question. I'll keep it in case we need to rob any parts off it
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How Much??!!
