On Thursday 23 November 2017 15:40:05 Stuart Stevenson wrote: > Knowing the caddy model would help but it looks as if Cadillac used > Chevy or Old's transmissions during those years. The transmission > insert with gear and generator should be easy to find. > > On Nov 23, 2017 1:07 PM, "Gene Heskett" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > A friend of the next door neighbors kid brother collared me at the > > grocery store today. Seems he has acquired an 88 caddy that has > > spent the last 30 years parked in a garage, collecting zero miles. > > > > But it has just broken some teeth off the speedometer gear in the > > transmission, and without that data the transmission is acting > > berserk and has rendered a showroom caddy un-driveable. > > > > And he wants me to see if I can restore this broken, probably > > plastic or phenolic gear. > > > > I have a hunch that as soon as I get this encoder working, then I > > had better get to work on my 4" rotary table as I'll need it to cut > > fresh teeth in the replacement plastic, or maybe even brass. > > I'm a little closer to that, its mounted on and spinning with the motor a/o 30 minutes ago. But not hooked up yet, I want to power it and look at its output on the scope, it turns out that it has differential outputs and I need to check the swing of one line because thats all the inputs a 5i25 encoder has, expecting to see cmos rail to rail on 5 volts. Or ttl at least.
And all that up and down on a short ladder has about finished my legs, so the testing and hookup will be tomorrow. Thanks Dave. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
