Recent content by southernclub

I'm thinking the black material wasn't fused to the aluminum by heat. Maybe it was melted by a solvent. Perhaps someone triend to lubricate it with something incompatible with the black stuff, and then it dried glueing eveything together. If we knew what the black material was, then maybe we...

*I meant the plates don't move around the screw or up and down.

Hi Jon and Ship.The round plates with the lever arms and the big screw going through them doen't seem meant to be serviced fom the bottom. That whole part is riveted in with three brass rivets. I don't know what the pin running through the screw is for but it doesn't seem to be there to hold...

I got a Mole stand for it in this week and took that to get sandblasted. I briefly tried a heat gun to loosen the black stuff. It got too hot to touch and started giving off a smell but didn't loosen. I won't be able to work on it again this weekend but maybe Monday I'll be able to try...

Yep, there's a guage and knob font and back.

Thank you Jon. I tried "Deep Creep" and let it soak for three days. If there's a better lubricant, let me know. The problem seems to be the black material in this picture It's rubbery and fused to the metal parts. I haven't tried heat yet but if that doesn't work was going to try to cut in...

Hello all. Thank you for the quick replies! As Jon Carter stated, that is how the mechanism works and it does look like the pin with the red arrow has sheared off. Probably somebody tried to force the handle but the part with the big screw sticking up doesn't move at all. The lamp carriage...

Hello. I'm trying to fix a Mole 410 with a frozen lamp mechanism. It's the part that moves the lamp and there are two parts I don't know how to fix. In the picture with the red arrow, what is that dot called? I think it's what held the part it goes through to that rod but the rod turns free...