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I can't get a photo of it, but: the issue is within the bevel gear at the top of the elevator screw...and I'm kind of stuck, now.
I removed the elevator shaft collar with the intention of pulling the shaft, but it can't be removed: not only is the shaft riding in a bearing inside a web inside the knee, but the bearing doesn't move with the shaft...so, I'm effectively trying to pull a Big Thing through a Small Thing, and that just doesn't work. But wait...there's less: the taper pin that's hanging out also cannot pass through that bearing, so the elevator shaft is effectively double-locked into place.
That being said: with the elevator shaft collar removed I can better feel what's happening up there...and at a certain point in the shaft's rotation, the bevel gear on the elevator screw wants to physically push the spur gear away. This movement is telling me that there's some kind of debris or deformation happening up there on the top surface of the bevel, where I can't see anything. I think my next step is to try and get eyes on the top side of the bevel gear, somehow. I might have room to sneak a tiny mirror up there.
This being said: even if I can get a look at what's happening, I don't know how to fix it. I have no idea how any of this was put together, because it seems to be about six kinds of impossible.
Oh, and the taper pin? Yeah, it's not actually falling out. It's just too long, as best I can tell; I tapped a wire against the opposite side hole and didn't get it in very far...so the pin is either in most of the way, or something else that's totally unknown is taking place.
I removed the elevator shaft collar with the intention of pulling the shaft, but it can't be removed: not only is the shaft riding in a bearing inside a web inside the knee, but the bearing doesn't move with the shaft...so, I'm effectively trying to pull a Big Thing through a Small Thing, and that just doesn't work. But wait...there's less: the taper pin that's hanging out also cannot pass through that bearing, so the elevator shaft is effectively double-locked into place.
That being said: with the elevator shaft collar removed I can better feel what's happening up there...and at a certain point in the shaft's rotation, the bevel gear on the elevator screw wants to physically push the spur gear away. This movement is telling me that there's some kind of debris or deformation happening up there on the top surface of the bevel, where I can't see anything. I think my next step is to try and get eyes on the top side of the bevel gear, somehow. I might have room to sneak a tiny mirror up there.
This being said: even if I can get a look at what's happening, I don't know how to fix it. I have no idea how any of this was put together, because it seems to be about six kinds of impossible.
Oh, and the taper pin? Yeah, it's not actually falling out. It's just too long, as best I can tell; I tapped a wire against the opposite side hole and didn't get it in very far...so the pin is either in most of the way, or something else that's totally unknown is taking place.