Prepare starter booms, Boom identification and orientation, Join starter booms sections with tees – Great Plains YP Fertilizer System User Manual

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Great Plains Mfg., Inc.

Installation Instructions

21

02/29/2008

407-197M

Prepare Starter Booms

Refer to Figure 38
114. Select the four boom assemblies

, which do not

have a specific assembly part number.

115. If the booms do not have end caps

, also select:

Boom Identification and Orientation

• The low rate starter boom sections have nozzles

with

800-367C AD PUSH 1/4TUBEX1/4MNPT

and

without

830-071C AD 1/4MNPT X 3/8HB POLYPROP

.

• Each wing has two boom sections. The open

thread ends are adjacent, and are to be mated by
a tee in a later step.

• The end of the boom with the four closely-spaced

nozzles

is the outside end (wing tip or planter

center). The ends with the sparsely-spaced noz-
zles

are where the tee connection will be made.

• The cap

is on the outside end.

• The nozzles face to planter rear. If the sections

are not pre-assembled this way, adjust the noz-
zles.

116. Lay the four booms, oriented as above along the

tops of the wing seed tube supports.

Join Starter Booms Sections with Tees

117. Select:

Refer to Figure 39
118. Apply thread sealant, and join each pair of boom

sections with a tee

.

119. Apply thread sealant, and screw in the elbow

.

Set its final orientation facing forward.

Qty

Call

Part

Description

4

830-061C CA 3/4FNPT POLYPROP

Qty

Call

Part

Description

2

830-028C TEE 3/4FNPT POLYPROP

2

830-123C EL 3/4MNPT X 3/4HB POLYPROP

Figure 38

High Rate Boom Assembly

99999

1

176

2

3

1

176

176

2

3

176

Figure 39

Starter Boom Tee

27113

173

180

173

180

173

180

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