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Originally Posted by peter_4059
Steve,
Sorry to hear about the worm failure. I know you can synthesize the green from red and blue (there's a carboni action that does this) however I'm not sure about blue from red and green. I always start with red and do blue second for this reason.
Peter
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Dang, thanks Peter.
Edit: actually it's not as bad as I thought. I ripped the gear apart in the dome
5 mins ago and give it a quick clean with petrol and a toothbrush.
Knowing my luck I will probably blow up from the highly explosive
air I'm sitting in as I type. Gear face looks much better with the grease and
aluminium shavings cleaned away so I can see the damage.
The scope went into a nosedive as the worm drove itself completely
out of mesh. I caught it as it had gone about 15-30 degrees of
scraping worm across 'mountaintops' of the wormgear!
When I saw that happening naturally I was gutted, kinda like the
feeling of dread I feel when the mother-in law is coming over...
Looks pretty good, no obvious scrape marks, but I'm at a loss to
why it was able to drive itself out of mesh?. It's all locked and bolted
solidly in mesh. I think possibly the worm cradle thrust bearing has slipped
out of centre somehow....