Today I had my contacter coil fixed and reinstalled it. This is the first time I've had reverse spindle rotation in about two years. But now I have a new problem. My belt/gear drive selector does not want to stay engaged when I cycle in and out of reverse drive. When I was messing around with the contacters a few days ago, the selector slipped out and at that time I thought I must have bumped into it while I was pushing my drive contacters in. In reality it jumped out of position when I went from reverse to forward with the drive. This selector has been "finicky" for as long as I have owned the lathe. It always seemed that I had to work at it to get it back into belt drive after being in gear drive, but once I got it in it stayed. There have been times when it has jumped out a while after changing back to belt drive but the few times that has happened I just thought I didn't get it fully engaged. I have played around with it enough now to know that if I run it in reverse, it will work fine until I stop and try to start the spindle the second time. Then it jumps out. This doesn't seem to happen at all in forward rotation. I don't have the parts and service manual for my machine. I have the two that are online. I've looked at the parts breakdown from the 42 model. (for whatever reason it's copied in mirror image which makes it a little harder to figure out) It's a round dial but appears to have the same set up as mine. I see there are two bearings and a small shaft with levers and shoes and pins. Without tearing into it, I'm thinking my problems probably lie somewhere in this area. Has anyone had a similar experience? Any advise before I start tearing things apart? Here's some pics of the lever that jumps out and the gear box. It's called the "electric drive" in the parts manual. Thanks
Chuck
Chuck