I'm sorry this has gone this way, I just offered to buy
the junker and if someone lived in Reno could pick it up
strip it keep the rest of it if they wanted to,
and send someone like Chuck or a retired mechanical
engineer I know draw up a set of plans then give them to
someone with a hobber, Then post the details on mfg.com and
maybe a Chinese shop would surprise us with the cost.
Sometimes it's not a matter of people being too cheap to offer to pay a
reasonable amount for things, or to contribute items for
reverse-engineering, but concern about the people who originally offered to
do the work losing interest, becoming overcommitted, or just plain flaking
out. I have been a victim -- and frankly, a perpetrator -- of all three
crimes against the hobby.
I'm sure that if someone actually does the work and offers a full set of
good-quality 8640 gears for $50 or less, the customers will be there. At
least one, anyway! (raises hand) At $100 or more you are competing with
parts-mule prices, so it doesn't make as much sense to create new gears if
that's what it would cost.
There's just one gear thats not a simple one, Fig 5 near
the bottom of the page
That's a really nice page. I hadn't heard the warning about not storing the
8640s face-up before.
-- john, KE5FX
