[R-390] What to do now

[Joe Foley]

Did you happen to hone the burrs off the sides of the
teeth?  Where the two gear sides mate?  If they don't
slide against each other smoothly the burrs may make
them to be too "thick".

Joe





--- N4TUA at aol.com wrote:

> I have discovered an interesting thing while
> cleaning the gear train on my  
> Motorola 56. The split gear #59 on the drawing seems
> to be out of 
> specification.  This is the gear on the center
> bottom cam shaft. The two halves fit  
> together fine but the snap ring will not go down
> into the groove. It was like  that 
> when I disassembled it and may have been built like
> that. Seems to have  held 
> up that way for almost 50 years. It looks like the
> individual gear halves  are 
> too thick. What would be the general suggestion to
> do here? These gears are  
> stainless and would be hard to sand down to fit. I
> thought this was most  
> interesting to find a manufacturing defect like
> this.
>  
> Collin
>
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