[mcs]

Originally Posted by tc4332

Mike, Understand where you are coming from suggesting using one plastic gear but I would think that is a weak point and would entail doing the whole strip down again in the future. I'm afraid this old lady will have to give us a lot of years service. As far as I am aware this is the first time these gears have failed on her (I have loads of paper on her) so at 12 years old they have done well. Shame that yours seem noisy, not heard that before, did you lube them?

Yeah I coated the gears in silicone grease. I suspect that the noise is why they were plastic from factory. The metal gear for the lid and the metal gear on metal for the screen drive make noise since its metal on metal. It isn't a bad noise, it's just a bit uncouth for me. The gear that commonly fails is the screen drive gear as it is small. The largest plastic gear that is attached to the motor (I think from memory) I left plastic on a mate's car and the noise of the mechanism working is quiet.

I replaced all my gears in one go with the brass ones. I am considering changing the bigger motor drive gear back to plastic. It generally isn't the one that breaks so should be fine.

Mike