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Unread 09-02-2003, 00:13
RobDeCotiis RobDeCotiis is offline
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I think you may be refering to gears made of pressed powdered metal like the old chiaphua gear cluster. If you want a good idea of how hard that thing was, try to grind it off. The lathe wouldn't even scratch it.
i had to saw through one of those.. by hand..it took me 45 minutes with a CARBIDE BLADE!!!
lord, that sucked royally