Mystery tool......(mystery to me anyway!)

[JEEPRUSTY]

Hmmm I have been messing about with Omnipage and these pdf do OCR quite well,

Oddly Acrobat is not as good a tool for OCR

Now to download em all and process them for the good of humanity.

There is an app for cleaning up the ghost image from the opposite side of the page. Does anyone know what the name of that app is?

[matt1100]

Nope !! Vise grips are the tool for that

Yes it does thread into the countershaft, you'll notice the smaller threads leading the larger ones. The whole shaft would spin though w/o vise grips or a bench vise or something to hold it steady while working on it.

Made mine with a piece of 6x1.5mm(?) threaded rod, some stout washers, threaded rod coupling for press nut (to keep the threads from pulling off) and a 1" galvanized pipe coupling which I cut reliefs in to allow access to the keepers.

A hard lesson I learned: for anyone attempting this repair is to make sure the gears on the other end of the shaft are correctly indexed to the keyed retainers upon relieving spring pressure.