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Originally Posted by Andy L
We have a spare Globe motor lying around our shop somewhere that I'll take a look at next time I'm in there. Can anyone elaborate on exactly how to take out out a stage without welding, milling, or anything that uses anything more than basically hand tools?
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Andy,
I can't think of any sane way of dropping a stage without welding, milling or some such. If you're in a real crunch, I'd just make all the preparations for welding two stages together and plan on being first in line at the Machine Shop on Thursday morning. I suppose if you're attempting this on the stage right out of the motor then you could try degreasing the pinion on the motor and the carrier above it and fusing them with JB-Weld or some industrial strength metal-metal epoxy, but I wouldn't want to think of that as more than a temporary solution, to be replaced with a more permanent solution when you have access to a welder. You might have more success at it if you try this with the next stage up from the motor and simply degrease the gears and fill the entire stage with JB-Weld or some such, and then dremel off the teeth of the planet gears and any excess JB weld so the whole mish-mash spins freely inside the ring gear. This would atleast spread out the load a fair piece. That's the only method I can think of aside from hack/chopsawing the ring gear to length or mechanically munging up the planets so they don't spin and stay fixed around the sun.