Originally Posted by
OurWorkbench
Thank you. I'm going to guess that should I be able to get it loose and off to clean that it would mess with the timing? The lavender arrow part does not rotate at all. It is always facing the same way while completely going all the way around the track. The red arrows are a wire and do not go completely around the shaft. The left end is the one that goes into the shaft and the right one is loose.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]538621[/ATTACH]
I tried to wrap a piece of bicycle tube around the lavender arrowed piece to see if I could get it to rotate -- no luck.
Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.
That sure looks like a roller that should spin to me. The short wire is a pin keeping it on it's shaft. You may need to take things apart quite a ways to get to it and clean the shaft of the old dried gunk that's bound to be in there. Probably not an easy chore. I just hope there hasn't been a flat spot worn in it over the years.
Rodney