Re: Farmall Electra

Posted by Wardner on August 31, 2006 at 13:18:56 from (4.154.245.208):

In Reply to: Farmall Electra posted by Bobl1958 on August 31, 2006 at 12:13:34:

I suppose I am the Electrall authority on this board. The Electrall manual comes up on eBay several times a year.

The tractor mounted gearbox is very rare. Some have said only 103 complete side mounted units were sold. I think most of them were taken off because it was a constant mesh setup. It drove off the gear that sent power to the IPTO. Electrall on top and IPTO on bottom. I removed the gear box on my tractor to see if it could be easily reproduced. A lot would depend on whether the gears are a standard catalog item. Apart from that there are two machined shafts, at least four bearings, (probably standard), and several cast iron castings which would have to be poured and machined. It looked to me like three or four thousand might get the first gear box in the hands of a customer.

I believe everything else for the installation is available on the PTO and trailer models which are more abundant. That would include the mounting bracket for the AC generator and the turnbuckle for belt tensioning. I have seen some sheet metal control housings that appear different but I don't think that would be a problem to reproduce. The belt guard is unique to the side-mounts.

I am willing to listen to anybody who might want to do a business venture concerning the reproduction of the side-mounted Electrall. Personaly, I think it is a losing endeavor because I don't see the demand. One has to understand that the other Electrall configurations are relatively scarce in their own right. Who is willing to spend $10,000 for a remanufactured tractor mounted Electral?

My email is open. I can shoot some pictures but I don't think they will turn out well unless I remove the gearbox. If somebody wants me to wrench on the tractor so they will have some good pictures, we will have to negotiate a price for that service.

Replies:

• Re: Farmall Electra PatMz 07:42:22 09/01/06 (0)
• Re: Farmall Electra Wardner 13:32:57 08/31/06 (4)
  • Re: Farmall Electra Wardner 15:13:42 08/31/06 (3)
    • Re: Farmall Electra D Slater 18:11:27 08/31/06 (2)
      • Re: Farmall Electra Wardner 18:47:06 08/31/06 (1)
        • Re: Farmall Electra David Slater 08:02:34 09/01/06 (0)

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