Just Sharing This Repairing broken gear jaeger smr 1224

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Restoration Jaeger SMR 1224 Rotor
While waiting for finding a spare worm gear , decided to give it a try to repair the broken worm .

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Drilled at a lathe 7 mm holes in both ends

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Made a 7 mm shaft from a steel bolt .

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Put en pressed the parts inline together with Loctite .

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And here the result , just have to polish the cracked location .

repaired worm.jpg


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Restoration Jaeger SMR 1224 Rotor
While waiting for finding a spare worm gear , decided to give it a try to repair the broken worm .

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Drilled at a lathe 7 mm holes in both ends

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Made a 7 mm shaft from a steel bolt .

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Put en pressed the parts inline together with Loctite .

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And here the result , just have to polish the cracked location .

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@Trust1 - Would have thought that it might have been useful to leave the bolt in place with Loctite on that, or did you actually do that?
 

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For sure I did , if I wanted just to glue it , there was no need for drilling
 
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