"Bob La Londe" wrote in message
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On Friday, March 2, 2012 9:13:56 PM UTC-6, Bob La Londe wrote:
The HF mini lathe hasn't been used since I got the slightly bigger much
older, and much better HF lathe. I wanted to use it the other day
though
because it has gear selectable forward and reverse carriage feed. The I
remembered I stripped those little nylon gears. I am sure I can get a
hold
of HF customer service and get a part number for those gears if its not
in
my manual for the machine, but I was wondering if somebody knew of a
source
for metal replacements? I know Little Machine Shop was the threading
gear
set in metal, but I didn't see the rest of the gears for the machine.

My next thought was maybe to try and make some metal gears, but I have
never
done that before. Any suggestions on the approach for that? Best alloy
for
reasonable wear?

I would hope that there'd be no shortage of people that can make you some
gears in this group, but if there isn't shoot me an email if you want
some hobbed.


Wow! Thank you. I appreciate that. If I can't come up with a good
solution I may just take you up on that.


That sounds bad doesn't it? Not sure how to rephrase it, so just take my
word it wasn't meant bad. LOL.