[R-390] More geartrain rebuild info

[Joe Foley]

--- Barry <N4BUQ at aol.com> wrote:

> One thing I'd like to add to all this.  When
> disassembling the planetary
> gears, I discovered the spring-loading mechanism is
> different from the
> standard ball-point-pen-style springs in the other
> gears.  These are a
> single circular piece of spring steel enclosed
> inside the gear halves.  Each
> half has a hollowed-out place to accomodate the
> spring.  If your geartrain
> is particularly gritty, these can be great little
> traps for dirt. 
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Now THAT is an impressive piece of work!

There is another gear built that way outside of the
planetary gearset, it's meshed to a larger gear and as
such it makes many more revolutions than the larger
gear and therefore is prone to having huge burrs
between the halves.

Definately in need of honing.

Joe



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