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Old 01-09-2015, 10:34 AM
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Hello

I'm the seller, they are not 3D printed! I sold over 200pcs and nobody had a fitting problem with it, who followed my manual!

Please use the manual what you got with the gears, and everything will be fine, if not, contact me and I will help you to find out what went wrong. (check your ebay messages)

Anyway about the Metal-plastic debate, I will make a video soon to show, what the metal gears done with a swiveling arms, and other plastic gears after 5 year of usage. You need to have dimensional tolerance in these gears mechanic. When two material with different toughness rolling over each other and transferring force over hundreds of time a year, you can imagine the soft plastic teeth will be eaten by the metal gears. Metal gears are not the right solution, I learned in the hard way.

My first gears was brass also way back, when the A8 was only 3-4 year old. I'm running an audi service center, and I saw what problem those gears caused in a long term, so that's why we moved to plastic. This plastic type will last forever, they are cut, cannot break, have the necessary tolerance.

You can check my manual here:

tizenharmas.hu

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Old 01-09-2015, 07:46 PM
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Figured it out. Embarrassing… The internal switch mounted in the middle of the unit, not the one that lines the wall, was switched internally. I think I removed it and it fell off and I just put it back real quick not paying attention. Thanks again for everyones help!

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Glad you got it sorted Chris!
Old 01-10-2015, 10:21 PM
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"Also check micro switches." - Misha, I like your "*** filling" - the best sense of senses given to human being! ;-)
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