Thanks again Stanley. I got those two little gears in earlier this week and
installed them yesterday... ok the day before yesterday now.

"Stanley Schaefer" wrote in message
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On Mar 2, 8:13 pm, "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?

LMS had ALL the gears plus extra pitches last I looked. And like the
man said, you need a weak link in the chain, otherwise things could
get more expensive than just a stripped gear. They are standard
metric module gears, guys were using ones scavanged from laser
printers and the like for oddball threads.

You must not have looked very hard:
http://www.littlemachineshop.com/pro...523&category=1

They also have a spare parts kit with some of the other gears, a belt
and some fuses.

Stan