….you find a bit left over in the box! To be more precise, you find a part you are not sure about.

The part in question is item ’20’ in the above diagram and is fitted to keyway in the screw for the apron slide. I’m not sure of its purpose (I will investigate this later) but The bad news was that it was in the box and no in the assembled machine!! So, looking at the diagram, I decided I needed to drop the rapid traverse unit (removing the 4 bolts) remove the two end caps of the apron and then I should be able to remove the screw to insert this ‘slider’.

Of course, the nut needed to be removed again (above) and then the screw would move out to the right. If you look at the photo below, you will see the screw withdrawn enough to allow the brass ‘spacer’ to be slid down along the bore to line up with the key fixed to the gear. The tang on the brass ‘spacer’ drops in by the gear so it will not slide out.

It was then a matter of aligning the screw and pushing it all back together. Evertything was bolted back up and it was operational again! Hopefully I will not be taking the apron apart again in the near future.