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Ken11487 09-09-2012 21:01:09 64.66.236.36 Report to Moderator	Were the drag plows assembled in the factory and then painted or were they shipped in a box to the dealer and then assembled? If so were the bolts plain black in a new plow.? Putting my no57 three tens back together. Also how we're the labels put on, a simple stencil or something like a screen print? [Reply]   [No Email]
Ken11487 09-10-2012 19:11:38 64.66.236.36 Report to Moderator	Re: Who assembled the plows in reply to Ken11487, 09-09-2012 21:01:09   Guess I will try the dipping method but let the bolts dry on a screen before assembly. I wonder if FITs electrolysis program would put a usefull coating on the bolts before painting. All bolts will go through the blast cabinet.   [Reply]  [No Email]
Jim Knapp 09-10-2012 16:26:48 184.20.33.131 Report to Moderator	Re: Who assembled the plows in reply to Ken11487, 09-09-2012 21:01:09   The boxcars that the plows, disks, and planters were shipped in usually had pools of green partially dried paint on the floor. We thought the machinery was probably dipped just before loading. Jim   [Reply]  [No Email]
Bob Collins 09-10-2012 06:09:14 50.36.171.181 Report to Moderator	Re: Who assembled the plows in reply to Ken11487, 09-09-2012 21:01:09   In the 30s and 40 and probably the 50s the plows came in bundles, wired together. Bolts were often in a cloth or burlap bag and had been painted, maybe dipped, because they were often stuck together with paint. I got this first hand info from and old man who had his fathers dealership and did much of the repair and assembly himself. I think the silk screening was done at the factory.   [Reply]  [No Email]
55 50 Ron 09-10-2012 09:20:20 209.131.231.155 Report to Moderator	Re: Who assembled the plows in reply to Bob Collins, 09-10-2012 06:09:14   Bob, You have it correct. I watched an uncle (employed by a JD dealer) assemble and deliver JD equipment in the 1950s and many implements, besides plows, came not assembled or partially assembled.   [Reply]  [No Email]
Leroy 09-10-2012 06:03:57 69.88.205.38 Report to Moderator	Re: Who assembled the plows in reply to Ken11487, 09-09-2012 21:01:09   A lot of owners manuals had assembly instructions in them, would tell what was in each bundle or what was already assembled. Find an owners manual.   [Reply]  [No Email]
Tx Jim 09-10-2012 03:44:37 67.142.163.24 Report to Moderator	Re: Who assembled the plows in reply to Mike Aylward, 09-09-2012 21:01:09   I can't speak for older plows but the ones JD shipped in the 60's-80's all came in pieces. I put many Surflex's,tandem disks,moldboards and disk breaking plows together when I worked for a JD dealer. I unloaded the parts out of a RR boxcar.   [Reply]  [No Email]