Dec 4, 2011

P160, Cleanup

As mentioned before, with elbow grease I had the P160 looking pretty good.  One issue remained; the gear pin holes.  When I tested the pins for play, as I turned them it felt "crunchy"

Out came a small Dremel wire brush.  The one I had was too big to fit in the holes, so I squished the brush using a vise.  Now, it was too small!  So a few taps on the end of the shaft flared the brush just enough to fit in the hole.  Went to work on the inside of the holes to clean the bores from there.



Two of the holes cleaned right up easily.  A third still had a bit of drag, so took a bit more honing.  Finally got all three to where I could easily turn the dry pins with finger tip pressure