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On 13 Apr 2002, at 2:22, Plk554@aol.com wrote: > Yes Jim, the gear is a bit of a mystery... I have made the same observations as > you have. I have seen several of the gears actually cracked enough to stick a > small screwdriver into the crack and break off the gear from the shaft. The rest > of the time it appears that nothing is wrong with the gear but it still seems to > just free spin. I've never seen one that spins round and round. They have a few tens of degrees of motion then a step on the "free" gear hits a mating step in an adjacent fixed gear, both nylon. At least that's what I remember. It is very possible that the clocks in your area suffer from different problems than the ones in my area. - ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------- List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list or mailto:help@vwtype3.org