The images and words are for grown ups. If you end up cut or electrocuted you're not really grown up enough.
>> New part from eSpares <<Brilliant service from both companies and the bits were delivered within a couple of days.
The support webs on the new casting are much larger than the original. I wonder how many failed...design fault?
Here's a closeup of the fracture
If you took it apart then reassembly is just the reverse.
Another thing that was past its best was the little grindery thing otherwise known as AT320A Multi Mill Attachment. The clips on the nylon drive coupling had busted and it kept falling out so I bought a new unit from eSpares. I took the old one apart out of interest and found it full of gunk, this is a cotton bud that had been soaked in meths.
I rebuilt it with the food grade grease and found it better than new. So much so that I did the same to the new one. The assembly comes apart easily, a Mole grip on the blade and a strap wrench on the rotor, grip the flange that's arrowed not the nylon drive coupling, it's a left hand thread.
Here's a scrap section of the bush, notice how the new one has a groove in the centre, I filled that with grease.
Finally, instead of slinging the old one out, I used blobs of silicone sealant to hold the coupling in, it's early days but it's working.
Couldn't resist the final picture,
left = new right = old
weird or what?
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