"Bob La Londe" wrote in message
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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?


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