It is rather surprising the amount of parts that were engineered into making these back in the day. I was very pleased that they work great after cleaning them up and the results are nice. Thank you for the comments and for watching!…
Dave, what a great idea you had to show the way water moves through the sprinkler without the internal! I think that’s really interesting to see. In all of these, all of the parts play a role. As for the production dates you asked about. I believe it was introduced in the 1930’s with the original line. Back then they also had equivalents to the 1330 and 1360 of later years. The latest catalog I have these in is 1966. In the 1960’s they brought on the 1300 line, and in my JM catalog from the 1970’s, all cams are 1300 series. Thanks for taking the time to get these things moving again. That must have been some rough water going through galvanized pipe, or something, to clog them so badly.
Bill, thanks for the great comments!. Wow!! This could go all the way back to the 30’s! That is amazing!! I have a 1972 repair parts catalog that still show parts available for them at that time. I might have missed something elsewhere in other catalogs. Time will tell.. I don’t know if there were jammed up when I got them from the scrap yard or from being in my storage area here. I had recently rediscovered them in my outside storage area at the bottom of a 5 gallon bucket full of water from the recent rains. Also being covered with other Hunter plastic rotors, leaves, etc. I had forgot that I even had these from the scrap yard. I was very pleasantly surprised after cleaning them up and going back together that they actually work! What a great testament to Buckner and there engineering at the time… Thanks for all the info and for watching!
They are very interesting. I may more into impact sprinklers, but I thought about the moment you took it apart and showed the rusty brass parts. I wanted to recommend soaking them for a day in citric acid which is contained in orange koolaid or other packages like that. It is the citric acid that cleans up the brass and you would find them quite clean in about a day or so. I would love to see them after wards. I usually take a steel brush to the accessible parts after the soaking. I suspect they will work even better, even though they were doing the job quite well. Thank you for sharing your video.
Thank you for the comments. I have heard of cleaning the brass of something like that but have never tried it. Will have to next time. Those 2 sprinklers were sitting outside in a 5 gallon filled with dirty water, leaves, dirt, rusty galvanized pipe fittings that had made its way inside the sprinklers. The internal parts looked great after cleaning all the debris off of them. Amazingly working great after all of these years! Thanks for watching…
Love the engineering that went into the cam rotors. thanks for sharing your knowledge of how to work on them as well
They are an interesting sprinkler! Thanks for your comments and for watching…
Very nice Buckner cam rotors! They work great after freeing up the turbines. A lot of parts go into those, nice coverage and rotation speed.
It is rather surprising the amount of parts that were engineered into making these back in the day. I was very pleased that they work great after cleaning them up and the results are nice.
Thank you for the comments and for watching!…
Those cam rotors are neat! I need to go to my nearest salvage yard to see if I can find any irrigation heads or guns! Thank you for sharing !
It doesn’t hurt to check the salvage yards. You never know what you can find…!!! Sometimes in new condition as well…
Dave, what a great idea you had to show the way water moves through the sprinkler without the internal! I think that’s really interesting to see. In all of these, all of the parts play a role. As for the production dates you asked about. I believe it was introduced in the 1930’s with the original line. Back then they also had equivalents to the 1330 and 1360 of later years. The latest catalog I have these in is 1966. In the 1960’s they brought on the 1300 line, and in my JM catalog from the 1970’s, all cams are 1300 series. Thanks for taking the time to get these things moving again. That must have been some rough water going through galvanized pipe, or something, to clog them so badly.
Bill, thanks for the great comments!. Wow!! This could go all the way back to the 30’s! That is amazing!! I have a 1972 repair parts catalog that still show parts available for them at that time. I might have missed something elsewhere in other catalogs. Time will tell..
I don’t know if there were jammed up when I got them from the scrap yard or from being in my storage area here. I had recently rediscovered them in my outside storage area at the bottom of a 5 gallon bucket full of water from the recent rains. Also being covered with other Hunter plastic rotors, leaves, etc. I had forgot that I even had these from the scrap yard.
I was very pleasantly surprised after cleaning them up and going back together that they actually work! What a great testament to Buckner and there engineering at the time…
Thanks for all the info and for watching!
They are very interesting. I may more into impact sprinklers, but I thought about the moment you took it apart and showed the rusty brass parts. I wanted to recommend soaking them for a day in citric acid which is contained in orange koolaid or other packages like that. It is the citric acid that cleans up the brass and you would find them quite clean in about a day or so. I would love to see them after wards. I usually take a steel brush to the accessible parts after the soaking. I suspect they will work even better, even though they were doing the job quite well. Thank you for sharing your video.
Thank you for the comments.
I have heard of cleaning the brass of something like that but have never tried it. Will have to next time.
Those 2 sprinklers were sitting outside in a 5 gallon filled with dirty water, leaves, dirt, rusty galvanized pipe fittings that had made its way inside the sprinklers. The internal parts looked great after cleaning all the debris off of them. Amazingly working great after all of these years!
Thanks for watching…
@@oldschoolsprinklers9000 I may not be into this design sprinkler, but the internals get me excited. Thank you for sharing it.