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I failed to post a photo so will go to the shed.....................

Colin

Edited By colin brannigan on 13/09/2017 16:37:54

Would that be the VW auto adjust clutch cable Howard?

(Clutch cables failed because of faulty design.

Colin

HPC gears order online.

Colin

Just a thought...........

Maybe the shift cable broke or eye end popped off when you changed gear passing neutral, lift the cover off the shifter check both cables are fixed and moving and do same on top of gearbox.

Accidents while operating a lathe...............way back in 1968 while attending night school, doing MECP 2 as part of my tool making apprenticeship, I was using a large Colchester lathe when my cow gown/brown coat caught in the lead screw and was ripped off me along with jumper, shirt, trousers and pants.

I stood there shocked, battered and naked except for my bike boots, one of the other students had hit the e stop on the wall which shut all machines down but the damage was done, I can only think as we were a poor family all my clothes were hand me downs and worn out which may have saved me from injury.

The lecturer was having a smoke in the stores with the technician at the time but he did go home to bring me some clothes so I could ride my bike home.

I am 67 now, been on the tools all my life, have all my fingers but one broken thumb (emery in lathe but I still do it), last year I set up a small machine shop in a garden shed containing Myford 7 Chinese miller, power saw, drill, welding to help with my passion for British Bikes when I do retire, I have a dozen bikes of varying age and size a 1927 Triumph W to a 1972 Triton.

I have been hovering here in the background for a while reading the posts and have my own views on tightening a Jacobs chuck I use two holes but on a three jaw on a lathe I use all three, and I can work in inches (American drawings) and metric European and Japanese drawings and metric is far easier

Many thanks for an excellent site

Colin