Clipper belt lacing tool and clips help?

BeltfedGoodness · May 10, 2015

I have a New Holland 4x4 round baler that needs new belt ends put on once in a whole, usually when I have a half a filed left to roll up and a cloud is coming in! I usually have an hour or two in down time to run to my belt guy and have a new end laced on. My splices have a 3/32" connector wire for the splice.

This year I want to get my own set up to keep the down time to a minimum. My belt guy uses the clipper system in a vise. How to use it is easy enough to figure out. There are 7" long clipper splicers on eBay for around a hundred bucks. The actual clip size is what I'm stumped on. What part. Umber or size do you fellas use for the clips? Can I run any clipper style hooks through the clipper head? Or is there a certain model clipper head for specific clipper hooks??

Needing to know pretty soon as hay is looking really good right now!!

Thanks fellas!!

Lawnman TX · May 10, 2015

You can look in your baler info, it probably will specify what size clips to use.

Just make sure you have a good vise, I stripped one out. Or get the lever style press made for the clipper style lacers

rubberguy · May 11, 2015

You may want to consider going with a different fastener system. Clipper make a great product, but its not very user friendly when your in the middle of a field and have a breakdown. Take a look at
MS ® - Mechanical Fasteners - Mechanical fasteners and splices - Minet Lacing Technology

It can be installed in the field, and all you need is a cordless drill.
If you want, I can send you a quote for a splice kit.

Good Luck!

NC419N · May 11, 2015

Go to Conveyor Belt Fasteners, Cleaners, Trackers, and Accessories - Flexco there you will see the different tools that are used with the fastening system. Most of them are not real user friendly for us novice belt lacing people. Their system works really well and normally last very well. Thinking that I would keep a spare belt or 2 and have a professional re lace the old belts for spares. I sell the lacing and the tools but do not repair the belts

LD1 · May 11, 2015

Not sure what type of lacer you are dealing with, but typically a lacer has different "heads" that will accept different size laces. What size laces you use really dont matter as long as both ends of the belt are the same.

Somewhere in the garage I have an old clipper no9 lacer with a few different jaws. looks like this one Clipper 9 Belt Lacer | eBay

If that may be something that interest you, I have no use for it. Send me a PM maybe we can work out a deal.

RickB · May 11, 2015

Or you can just keep an extra belt on hand and have your belt guy continue to lace them.

RPW · May 12, 2015

I do my own also. Broke my first vise which I thought was a very sturdy 6in. New vise is a 8in. machinist vise. Works a lot better.

Lawnman TX · May 12, 2015

They really aren't that hard to do, I'm not sure why everyone is so leery of doing them. Takes about 10 min. There are portable presses for doing them in the field as well

Farmer495 · May 12, 2015

I have one for 4x4 NH 630, came with the baler, 6" unit for a 7" belt....nice... but it works better than nothing and has saved the day a few times.

I will have all brand new belts for this season. Nothing like the factory tight laces. $135 each free delivery in USA....

DJ54 · May 12, 2015

I'll agree with them being hard on a vise, broke two, fixing one belt. Didn't have the press moved here from the other place yet, so that's all I had. Hydraulic press is definitely the tool to use with one!! A hydraulic vise would be sweet, but can't justify the cost.