02-19-2024, 08:51 AM
Hello, Thank you for the reply. I should have thought of that before I started putting it all back together. As you turn the wheel you can feel where the missing tooth is but as the other teeth on either side of the damaged one still mesh with the rack it will not affect what I want do do on the lathe but it would be nice to fix it. The damaged gear is at the end of a short shaft just a few inches long and there is a larger gear on the shaft up against the damaged one. If I was going to drill tap and insert studs where the damaged tooth is I could not file to shape unless I got the other larger gear off. I looks as if it is shrunk on to the shaft. I have a 20 ton bottle jack and may put something together and see if i can remove the larger gear. That is for the future as I want to get the lathe up and running. Any ideas would be welcom.