New Idea 44 Rake clutch

u_p_country

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Good morning all!

I am looking for a clutch for my New Idea 44 rake. While tedding last night the bars topped spinning. :cry: On looking at the gears, I can see that the teeth on the clutch are worn mostly off. The raking side seems fine and if worst comes to worst, I can just use it that way. If anyone has a lead on where I might be able to find one, I believe the part # is M298.

Thank you!

Adam
 
Adam. Need more and better information. Just what looks bad, the large gear with the teeth on the inner side being wore off? the part that slides between the 2 gears the ends wore off? or what? Some new parts are avaible, Same as a No. 4 rake and that is still a very desireable rake in Amish countey, I an converting a No. 54 that is low rubber to a No. 4 high steel right now. Have 3 more No. 4 waiting on me and also a Deere. I may have what you need but need better information to know. The No. 44 is just a newer version of the No. 4 that is also a 4 bar but all the parts in the drive are the same on the 3 bar back to 1935 or everything after the name was changed to New Idea from Sandwich and production was brought to Coldwater, Ohio from sandwich, Ill.
 
Adam, Thinking a bit more about your problem. If it is what I think you don't need anything except about 2-4 1 1/2" machinery washers or bushings as they now call them. All you will need to do is take things apart and turn the clutch slide end for end and that will out a good square corner to drive instead of the worn off one and when you put it back together gust put 1 or 2 of those washers on the outside of each gear to tighten them against theangle gear that is on a shaft going to a sprocket that drives the chain. Sometime tjhey get worn enough that the teeth on the gears will jump but putting those washers in takes care of that problem. And if that piece withthe notches in both ends has already been turned ans all corners wore it can be built up with brazing, do not try to arc weld it. New ones of those are avaible at a couple of years ago he was around $70 dollars for a steel one and not cast. The notches in the gears can be repaired with brazing as well. I would hate to guess how many rakes I have worked on in the past 20 years including the New Ideas, McCormick, John Deere, Massey Harris and Minnie Moline and grew up with a New idea and David Bradley. When I had a extra 4 bar real with no framw and a 3 bar with good frame but bad real I put that 4 bar real in the 3 bar frame. Also put a MH real in a McCormick frame. When you take it apart to work on it just do not loose that big key that drives everything.
 
Leroy,

Thanks for the replies. The piece that is messed up is the one that slides between the gears. The teeth on the outside (towards the wheel) are gone. The ones on the inside (towards the main body of the rake) are fine. I raked a little yesterday to test and the raking works as it should. I don't absolutely need the tedding function, but it would be nice. Are those clutch pieces still available in steel? I would be interested in one!

Thank you,

Adam
 
An Amish friend makes them. If he does not have one on the shelf itmight take him a while to get one made. I am going to open my email and you should open yours
 
Leroy,

Thanks for the reply. Being new to the forum, I guess I'm not sure what you mean by opening my email. As to waiting for a part to be made, that's not a huge problem, I won't have time to tear things apart until after deer season, like mid November. It would be great to get the rake back to full working order!

Adam
 
When you either make a new post or put in a reply to one it comes up with a line with your name. Next line down says E-Mail, you just put your email address in there and it will automatically give me your email to get in touch with you. Same for you to get in touch with me. If you look under the post you will see a box marked no email or marked email. For you to reply to me just click on the box marked email. There is also a box marked reply and that is where you should put a reply to me instead of replying to yourself. This is on classic view as that is all I use and have been doing that since late 90's and took me time to figure it out as well. Hope this helps you. When you put in your email only YT gets it, not everybody on the site. When you click on my email I get a message from YT and not from you.
 
Leroy,

I think I got it right this time. I didn't see that option in the other view so that was what confused me. I'll look forward to your email.

Thank you,

Adam
 
Leroy,

Nothing in my in box yet. I even checked my spam just in case. Nothing doing. It's possible that I misspelled it the first time.

Adam
 

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