Ron: On my Standard D and Amberola DX, the gears look like some sort of soft steel. They are pressed on to hard steel shafts. These shafts fit in bearings in the gearbox sides. On my Standard, the end of the shaft on the idler apparently sheared off some time ago, but there was enough left in the bearing to keep the gear in place. I say this because the broken end of the shaft was polished. It was the weirdest thing. I inspected the shafts on the other gears and they look fine.
I'll have to take my DX apart soon to inspect its gear shafts. It's been getting rather noisy lately and it looks like one of the gears is wobbling a little. If that one lets go, grease is going to come flying out of all the vent holes in the top grille and I may not be so lucky with regard to gear damage. -Phil On 7/24/04 10:55 PM, "Ron L'Herault" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Homes, often it is a small brass gear that splits and lets things > unwind violently if it is fully wound. > > Ron >
