??? ??? Plastic gears don't disintegrate like Zamak gears
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On 3/16/2022 11:51 AM, Bruce J wrote:
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This! the plastic gears are much easier to replace than metal
parts of the lathe!
In one of his lathe videos Mr Pete mentions this is
one reason why they made the change gears for old Atlas lathes
out of Zamak: it was dead easy to cast very accurately and it
would be the weak point in case of a jam.
As to plastic gears, I hate
plastic. Now saying that, I have broken a plastic gear
due to my idiocy. If that plastic gear had not broken,
things would have turned out seriously badly.
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Bruce Johnson
"Wherever you go, there you are." B.
Banzai, PhD
