After thoroughly enjoying the buffing grinding and polishing and painting part of this restoration, it came time to reassemble. This was when I suddenly remembered that I am not a mechanic. I am a software engineer that loves woodworking.
Overall it went better than I expected, and with a few sporadic hours of effort I was able to get all the parts back in place. For anyone else on this journey, take lots of pictures. I laid all the parts out in order as I took them off and got multiple angles of them both assembled and separate.
It wasn't until the entire machine was assembled, rewired, and mounted on the bench that I found a problem. When I started it up for the first time there was clicking. Click, click, click. After going over the entire parts assembly and all my pictures, i realized that i did not tighten one allen setscrew on a collar next to the rear bearing. :mad: :mad: :mad:
The reason this is such a problem is that now after all the greasing, spring winding, and finagling that assembly together i will have to take the entire thing apart to get to that one setscrew. I have considered living with the ticking, but I am sure the bearing will get knocked loose, or it will do some horrible damage eventually.
