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is there any such thing as up-rated springs available for the tines on these yokes?, they seem to last no time, it got an over-haul last summer and all new springs as part of it because we were fed up with tines dragging and what seemed like a never ending cycle of replacing one or two at a time. After a year I'd say 70-80% of them have failed, and they all look like they have been there for 10years they are that badly rusted.
I am pretty sure I have memories of stopping the machine in years gone by and the clatter of the tines snapping up out of work as it slowed... I miss that sound!! Me father reckons they are much easier to change/weaker that they used to be too. They all seem to break at the same place mind you, so if there are no alternatives we were thinking of trying to heat the bend where the hook into the holder to see if that was less brittle would they last any longer??...
I am pretty sure I have memories of stopping the machine in years gone by and the clatter of the tines snapping up out of work as it slowed... I miss that sound!! Me father reckons they are much easier to change/weaker that they used to be too. They all seem to break at the same place mind you, so if there are no alternatives we were thinking of trying to heat the bend where the hook into the holder to see if that was less brittle would they last any longer??...