Bacon slicer - all screwed up.

[Robin Oldfield]

Having undertaken a minor repair to a bacon slicer starter I find that screwing in the long bolts G results in the gear wheel B locking up.  By releasing the bolts to almost finger tightness the gear is released but the endplate K into which the bolts go is then loose and wobbles.  Any suggestions?

   

[Ian Williams]

You have obviously reassembled something incorrectly but very hard to diagnose from the information provided. Pictures and some information on what you did to it may help to get an answer.

[Reckless Rat]

Have you got the plate 'K' on back to front?

[Robin Oldfield]

You have obviously reassembled something incorrectly but very hard to diagnose from the information provided. Pictures and some information on what you did to it may help to get an answer.

All I have done is repair the main starter terminal.  I have not touched the main motor at all.  It looks as though I will have to do some more dismantling as whatever the problem is it must have been there already.  Motor has been completely rebuilt, but not by one of our specialist suppliers.  Caveat emptor.

[Robin Oldfield]

Problem sorted.  The end plate K in the diagram has a small slot in it which matches to a small register on the main frame.  Mine had not been positioned properly.  (May have been due to my fiddling).  Now to tackle the main reason for removing the starter.  The main stud through the casing to which is attached the cable from the foot switch had been subjected to a Heath Robinson repair and had sheared.  So I need to make up a new one (unless available somewhere?) and then ensure that it is properly insulated where it protrudes through the casing (Woodrow lists 8 items including mica washers, paxolin washers and a fibre shield.)  Alternatively I could take the cable from the switch and feed it through the casing and attach directly to the rigid field.  Life is never boring when you have a Seven, is it?