[AT] Ralph's website now rotary cutter grease now throttle cablenuts

[Mark Greer]

Larry,
I don't believe we have anything like that. Actually I'm not even sure I
know exactly what they are. Got a picture or something?
Mark

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry D. Goss" <rlgoss at evansville.net>
To: "'Antique tractor email discussion group'"
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Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 7:03 PM
Subject: RE: [AT] Ralph's website now rotary cutter grease now throttle
cablenuts


> Hey Mark, I have a question for you.  You may have seen on another list
> that I've been looking for an affordable source for throttle cable nuts
> -- those nuts that thread onto the outside of flexible cables to hold
> and adjust the length on the "far end".  I found them at Mission
> Manufacturing.  They had a local job shop machine them from scratch and
> are selling them at $2.10 each.  I was told that John Deere still uses
> them and this afternoon I found them from that source at $0.85 each --
> their part number PT16281.  These used to be used on the engines of
> every John Deere, Wheel Horse, Power King, and Cub Cadet tractor in the
> "early days".  Today, they are nearly unavailable.  John Deere shows
> them on their 110 IPL as being out of production in 1967.
>
> I bought a dozen from Mission and found that they only fit American-made
> cables.  That's a real Bummer because most of the new throttle cables
> are made in China.  What's happened is that the new cables are the same
> size wire and wound at the same pitch (18 tpi), but they are wound to a
> larger diameter and the custom-made nuts jam when you try to install
> them on a foreign-made cable.
>
> I ordered a couple of nuts from John Deere today to try them as samples
> on some Chinese cables I have.
>
> The bottom line question is: Does your company list these?  Have them in
> stock?  Do they fit any manufacturer of cable?
>
> Larry