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Yes, this is wrong.
The flange on the bushing acts as a thrust washer between the gears
and the sleave. It also serves to locate the gears away from the banjo
and in the proper alignment with the other gears in the train.

In your setup the gears are free to grind against the banjo, the
sleave and the other gears.

They can also separate from each other leaving an unsupported section
of bushing bearing the load.

Properly tightened, the nut on the end of the tee bolt locks the
cleave to the banjo making it a solid non rotating axle. The gear
bushing assembly should rotate freely on this axle with a couple of
thousanths side to side clearance. The side to side thrust is borne by
the flange on the bushing on the headstock side and by a slight
projection of the bushing on the nut end of the axle.

Like Scott, I suggest you aquire the proper parts. As a stop gap
measure, you could make a couple of bronze thrust washers for each
side to take the thrust, locate the gears and to take up the excess
side to side clearance.

Paul K. Dickman

On 13 Aug 2005 09:47:10 -0700, "CAMCOMPCO"
wrote:

Thanks, but....
There was no nut that went over the threaded part on the brass
bushing....Also, only one of the brass bushings even has a thread on
it....could it be that the previous owner replaced it or something...I
don't know.

Also, the brass bushing does not have a flange...
I have posted three photos he
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...d/Img_0554.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...d/IMG_0552.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...d/IMG_0553.jpg

Thanks for any (continued) help......

Maybe it's just that the gears are intended to be loose on the
lathe...the nut bottms out on the long metal tupe with a flange on it
(i think it is called the sleeve (LA-313 I think)