Gentlemen,
Here’s an update. Received my parts order from Brasseur’s and the replacement brush measures 0.470 and is carbon, but turns out I only ordered one! Overlooked this as I ordered other parts as well.
But! In the middle of the night I woke up and the solution to the excessive worm shaft slop hit me! I was able to use a pin punch and tap the ball bearing into the bearing blocks so as to get the spur gears exactly centered on each other with just slight endplay. I put some epoxy at the rear of the bearing blocks so as to keep the from migrating and creating slop in the shaft again. Tomorrow I’ll file the back of the bearing blocks flush, drop the worm shaft back in and see how she goes. Temporarily I’ll use the longer brushes from a ‘46 Turbine.
AC
P.S. It would be awesome if someone made brushes of the same material as the originals. Anyone have a source?
