Reply To: Ransomes motor triple cutter drive clutch

[trusty220]

It may even pay to buy another donor Motor Triple to provide a source of spares for the future. These machines used a lot of spare parts when they were in current use and common sense would suggest that the supply of spares is going to get less as time goes on.

My experience of the Motor Triple cutter clutch was that the friction material that was bonded to the drive plate was extremely thin but I’ve never seen any worn out. Once the clutch is engaged it wouldn’t slip- all three cutting units had a V-belt at some point in their drivelines and these would be the first to start slipping if the load on the cylinders was excessive, so the clutch was protected. Besides trimming burrs off and filing grooves out of the cage that was all that was needed.

Good luck with your search for parts.