So, I turned a new spacer, made it 3/4" thick on the nose. Found that there was no way to assemble the damn thing with a spacer that size, there was just no way to get the large gear wheel into place in the casting cavity. I figure the spacer and gear wheel were probably 65 thou too thick to get into place, go figure 
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So, I figure Rockwell/Delta must have known what they were doing, so I'm assembling it with the old spacer in place. I'll be gingerly tightening the lower wheel, and only once the gearbox is in place.
We'll see what happens...
.So, I figure Rockwell/Delta must have known what they were doing, so I'm assembling it with the old spacer in place. I'll be gingerly tightening the lower wheel, and only once the gearbox is in place.
We'll see what happens...