Greetings all; A friend of the next door neighbors kid brother collared me at the grocery store today. Seems he has acquired an 88 caddy that has spent the last 30 years parked in a garage, collecting zero miles.
But it has just broken some teeth off the speedometer gear in the transmission, and without that data the transmission is acting berserk and has rendered a showroom caddy un-driveable. And he wants me to see if I can restore this broken, probably plastic or phenolic gear. I have a hunch that as soon as I get this encoder working, then I had better get to work on my 4" rotary table as I'll need it to cut fresh teeth in the replacement plastic, or maybe even brass. Caddy has been queried about it, but the last of those service parts was sold out in 2008 according to their reply. So its make a new one, or else junk the caddy. If I elect to do brass, that will probably need a specially ground tapered mill or a single tooth flycutter. Does anyone know where one might obtain a drawing for such a tool? Or should I jut try to duplicate something that fits the remaining teeth on this one when it arrives? Thanks guys. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
