On May 1, 23:13, Philip Pemberton wrote:
> If someone wants to send me one or two plotters with bad drive gears,
I'd be
> willing to have a go at repairing them. My technique involves
repairing the
> damage with Araldite (epoxy adhesive - sets rock hard) and then
putting a
> small (#10) staple in across the damaged section.
Er, the gear we've been discussing is very small -- about 3mm overall
diameter, roughly the size of the winder knob on a small ladies
wristwatch! MUCH smaller than a small staple, in fact the bore's
hardly bigger than the staple diameter :-)
Anyway, Araldite doesn't stick to waxy plastic like these gears :-(
> I'd be tempted to take a few 10ths of a mm off the inside of the hole
> for the shaft that the gear fits onto. If they're cracking, the shaft
is
> probably too big for the hole.
Enlarging the hole by 0.1mm would make it spin on the shaft :-)
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Received on Thu May 01 2003 - 17:38:01 BST