Kaitymacsdad
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Is this mesh okay or ti tight
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It's kind hard to tell from this angle but I think it looks alright. I like to set my mesh by ear. Just rock the spur gear back and forth with the pinion fixed in place and I'm listening for a nice consistent ticking sound without having to move the gear too much. At some point when you get in too tight, the ticking will get quieter as the gap from tooth to tooth becomes so small that it just start bumping from side to side instead of ticking. When you go too far apart, the sound becomes more of a clacking and that's when you're too far out. I tried the paper method at first but I found the results too inconsistent for my liking. Going by sound was way more reliable. But that's just me. YMMV
Again, from this angle it looks alright to me. The tips of the teeth don't look like they're about to bottom out and what looks like about a 0.25-0.3mm gap between the surfaces (not being able to see the teeth from a 90° side on view, I'm just shooting from the hip) it looks fine. If there's a tiny bit of play so that you can rock one of the gears back and forth a little bit before it engages would be a good way to test it.
Make sure to set it to a click-clack, but then turn it 1/4 turn, and make sure it still click-clacks, then another 1/4 turn etc… I have had them sound ok at one orientation and then bind at 180 degrees.
That is easier than said than done in some cases... I have transition bifocals and a flashlight, and I still have a hard time setting it by eye/feel...three times i've used the paper trick i've had no problems....maybe i should actually inspect the gears sometime hahhaha
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