[Coco] CGP115

[Stan Blazejewski]

Close but not quite the solution.

I managed to do a permanent fix by drilling out the original cracked
gears till they were a slide on fit (but not sloppy), doing the
wet-n-dry bit & then super gluing the gears on.

You'll notice that the crack closes as soon as you take the gear off.
The idea is to put the gears back on 'without' stressing the plastic
in any way, hence the drilling out.

I had many years of trouble free use after doing this fix.


On Tue, 5 Nov 2013 17:45:33 -0500, you wrote:

>On Tuesday 05 November 2013 17:34:35 RJRTTY at aol.com did opine:
>
>> Hello all
>> 
>>    I purchased on of these but it won't advance the paper and  moves the
>> pen in an erratic way.   I have heard there is a plastic gear in them 
>> that wears out easily.
>> 
>>    Can anybody offer me advise on how to deal with  this?   Maybe
>> get a replacement or better yet have one made of some sort of metal
>> aluminum or brass.
>> 
>> any help would be appreciated
>> 
>> Roy
>>
>The gear doesn't wear out per sei, but the hub splits and it then slips on 
>the shaft.  BTDT, put a new one on way back when when you could actually 
>order parts from the shack, probably 20 years ago.  I put the new one on 
>with superglue, and made note a couple years later that it also had split 
>the hub, but that the superglue was still holding well.  I roughed up the 
>shaft with 220 wet-r-dry to give it some tooth to grab when I put the new 
>one in.
>
>But then the pens became made of un-obtainium, and its quite hazy in the 
>sands of time but I think I binned it as I haven't stumbled over it in my 
>basement midden heap in at least 10 years.
>
>That shaft IIRC is quite well polished, so you may be able to do a usable 
>fix by taking a diamond tool to it, or a fresh piece of 150 to 220 grit 
>wet-r-dry sandpaper and making some healthy, deep lengthwise scratches in 
>the polish, then super gluing it.
>> 
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