Rebuilding an model 160 planer. As fate would have it is the same machine
> from my old high school.
> Anyways, sometime during its life the gear that drives the infeed roller
> must of come loose and spun on the shaft.
> The shaft is salvageable but the gear has a crack at the setscrew and the
> keyway slot is pretty rough.
>
> Anyone have or know where I might be able to buy a new gear ? Pretty sure
> that the gears from the later 180`s and such are the same.
> Surely Powermatic has `em but at the price of an arm and leg.
> Thanks
> Jsawduste
If you don't have the bucks to get one from powermatic,(recomended), I would take it to someone who has a post heating oven, and can weld the gear, then bake it. A machine shop could clean up the keyway.
Those are your only options, IMO.
-- Jim in NC