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Sam Spoons10/04/2020 11:49:50
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WRT the sliding gear mechanism. It is impossible to get your hand around the bull gear and pulleys to the pin on the mech so reassembly initially looked impossible. Eventually Bazyle's hint about thick grease triggered enough synapses to suggest a solution. I was thinking that you can't stick the shoe to the peg if you can't reach the peg. The answer? Stick the shoe into the slot on the gear and rotate it into position then carefully push the lever mech through the hole in the headstock hoping the pin engages with the hole in the shoe*.

I have not actually ignored the advice not to reverse the shoe but as I don't have a suitable piece of brass I have done so pro-temp until I can make a new one.

The hole in the shaft is in the correct place, not sure why there is a similar hole on the other side but that's another job for later when I'll probably drill and tap the lever in a different place and add a third locating hole in the shaft.

Thanks for the help, more updates as things progress.

* I was unreasonably pleased with myself when this worked first time blush

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