Lesson learned? I HOPE so. Never do THAT again!!
I'm sure everyone either has a story like this, or will have one eventually. Am I right, or am I the only clutz!?
Every now and then we get those humbling experiences. I just picked up (off of CL, and bargained downward but still paid too much probably) a Singer 28 with handcrank and coffin top. It had a weirdly bent crank handle, which I was luckily able to bend back without breaking, and needs a replacement handle that will revolve, and I could see lots of old thread wrapped behing the hand wheel, so I decided to remove the handwheel. It was stuck tight, and I was able to leverage it out a bit, but towards the end I grabbed a deadblow hammer, figuring a couple light taps, evenly spaced around the hand wheel won't hurt. WRONG!! It came off alright, with about 1/2 of the collar that it slides over, that is threaded for the hanfreewheel clutch knob and pinned to the shaft. [ATTACH=CONFIG]485479[/ATTACH]
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