nothing critical, just annoying, like the dissolving "rubber" ways protector I just replaced. the gear change levers on this mill are plastic with a steel bushing insert. they are held in place on the gear shafts with roll pins. I hadn't noticed the cracks in both levers until I went to change out the little OEM digital readout on the quill. in order to replace it, I needed to remove the metal faceplate and for that of course I had to remove the gearshift levers. I was going to call the distributer and ask them to send me replacements, but when I removed them, I realized that when they were installed at the factory, the roll pin holes were drilled thru the gear shafts extremely crooked on 2 axis and I would never be able to drill the new levers to match this mess.
my theory is that they installed the levers last, after everything was assembled and used a hand drill with a short bit to drill the roll pin holes. new ones would probably just fail again anyway as they are made from dung. besides, we make things right? the RH lever came off easily but the LH one fell completely apart when removed. did my usual cold gun blue on the parts and used a couple of ball knobs I had in a bin. they're a little large for these short levers but oh well. I used set screws (need to change them to shorter ones) I had instead of drilling more holes thru the gear shafts.![yyyyyyyyyyy.jpg yyyyyyyyyyy.jpg](https://www.hobby-machinist.com/data/attachments/454/454650-bb75a6e612e97db68582f4302fee1967.jpg)
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