R_O_M
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Hi Gamaman. We had the identical problem. Our clean grain auger in the bottom of the shoe had snapped right through near the left hand end when we were harvesting lentils. I actually heard the bang when it broke, stopped, checked the machine over for quite a few minutes but couldn't find anything wrong. It was only a few days later when I was checking the idling machine over while doing the daily inspection before starting and saw the shaft end was stopped that we found the broken shaft. Fortunately no other damage was done. We had harvested for a few days with it broken and there was the occassional odd noise, the source of that I could not find when I stopped and checked. We welded some new flight onto a heavy tube and put the shafting back through the tube rather than weld the flighting direct onto the shaft. Why should it break and in our case particularly close to one endIJ With the break in the centre, I would suspect that the auger was not balanced and spinning at some speed, it flexed a lot due to out of balance forces and fatigued until it broke through.