Did you remove circular steel plate pressed into housing (against back of spindle cable gear)? How difficult was it? Did it stress pot metal too much? Apologies for so many questions. I wanted to remove that plate when my spindle cable comitted suicide (to insert another) but was afraid of damaging housing. Soldered repair to remaining cable instead. Bill Robertson #5939 >--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "robert parker" <roberthparker@xxxx> wrote: > Greetings; I have overhauled the a-d & found the two gears to be rather worn.