alanjohnturner
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The backgound to this topic can be read here:
https://www.tr-regist...-angled-drives/
Basically a fellow forumite sent me some right-angled drives for me to try to fix them.
As is often the case the flexible wire stubs were fractured.
I managed to make some new stubs based on 3mm flexible wire from a speedo drive cable.
This wire was sent in by another fellow forumite!
BUT
I think this is a far better way to fix these.
First the square peg, made from 3mm square "key-steel".
A piece of 1/8in key-steel is a perfect sliding fit in the gear-box take-off. So using 3mm generates a little clearance.
https://flic.kr/p/p58rxw
Now the converter to fit the round hole in the bevel gear:
https://flic.kr/p/pmCpNv
Goes together like this:
https://flic.kr/p/pjAjsN
The peg is retained in the converter by an O-ring, you can just see this , its blue, by looking down the hole:
https://flic.kr/p/p58f2V
If you ever break this peg, well just push in a new piece of key-steel!
https://www.tr-regist...-angled-drives/
Basically a fellow forumite sent me some right-angled drives for me to try to fix them.
As is often the case the flexible wire stubs were fractured.
I managed to make some new stubs based on 3mm flexible wire from a speedo drive cable.
This wire was sent in by another fellow forumite!
BUT
I think this is a far better way to fix these.
First the square peg, made from 3mm square "key-steel".
A piece of 1/8in key-steel is a perfect sliding fit in the gear-box take-off. So using 3mm generates a little clearance.
https://flic.kr/p/p58rxw
Now the converter to fit the round hole in the bevel gear:
https://flic.kr/p/pmCpNv
Goes together like this:
https://flic.kr/p/pjAjsN
The peg is retained in the converter by an O-ring, you can just see this , its blue, by looking down the hole:
https://flic.kr/p/p58f2V
If you ever break this peg, well just push in a new piece of key-steel!