I am most of the way through rebuilding my 10L, down to the gearbox and getting the spindle shimmed correctly.
Gearbox is in pretty good shape other than the tumbler gear. It is the older bushing style and it appears the oil passages got clogged. The gear bushing is worn to a taper - .682 on one end and .668 on the other, plus heavily grooved. The tumbler arm is egged slightly.
Can I fix this by boring out the arm slightly, turning the pin down and making a bronze bushing? I don't have a spare lathe, but I do have a mill. I can put my lathe back together except this arm as long as I don't need to cut threads.
Or is there a way to convert this to the bearing style?
Gearbox is in pretty good shape other than the tumbler gear. It is the older bushing style and it appears the oil passages got clogged. The gear bushing is worn to a taper - .682 on one end and .668 on the other, plus heavily grooved. The tumbler arm is egged slightly.
Can I fix this by boring out the arm slightly, turning the pin down and making a bronze bushing? I don't have a spare lathe, but I do have a mill. I can put my lathe back together except this arm as long as I don't need to cut threads.
Or is there a way to convert this to the bearing style?