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Rockford Indicator planetary gear repair

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0:00 introduction
0:26 3.0mm/18 tooth gear, mounting
1:23 boring the center with a dental bur
2:28 reducing the thickness of the gear
2:59 grinding for a finer finish with a grinding attachment on my cross slide
3:44 1.6mm/9 tooth pinion, cutting off arbor and pivot
4:42 striking the center for drilling
5:11 drilling
5:52 cutting shoulder
6:39 grinding shoulder with a sapphire file
7:06 undercutting for rivet
7:35 riveting
8:10 grinding off other pivot and reducing thickness
9:00 finer finishing grinding
9:14 finish drilling through
9:38 remove old rivet from post (poor footage, sorry)
10:04 counter sink for new rivet
10:19 riveting
11:25 how it works under the barrel
11:53 reassembly
13:02 winding

This is a very abbreviated version of the process. It took me most of a day to complete this repair. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to leave them in the comments below. Thanks for watching.


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