Yellow Spectra
12-31-2004, 05:51 AM
I just got done assembling the autorotation hub and I noticed that it doesn't spin "freely" as I would imagine an auto-rotation to. It's rather tight and gets tighter when you turn it full circle and then it returns back to "regular" tightness after one revolution. Is it suppose to be smooth all through the revolution? Another observation I had was that it was rotating more freely before I screwed in the set screw (Part number #0057 and referring to drawing #3-D.) with the dowel in place. Once I tighted the set screw onto the dowel, the autoroation gear didn't spin as freely as it did without the set screw. Is this because the O-ring (Part #0866-11) hasn't broken in yet? I want to put the other half of the frame in but I don't want to take it apart again if I what I am experiencing isn't normal. The manual doesn't state whether this tightness is normal or not. Thanks for any help anyone can offer.