... with the flange at the bottom secured to the toe-board with three bolts
which are part of the alignment of the column and rack shafts.
Is this flange attached to the column? And if so how? The parts catalogues
indicate they are an assembly, but mine is completely detached and just fell
off. There seems little likelihood it could be used for alignment of the
column as there is at least 1/8" clearance all the way round between the
column tube and the flange. There is a ring welded to the tube near the
bottom, which the flange can butt up against as if it is supposed to be welded
to it, but that puts the flange a good half an inch away from the toe-board
when the pointers on the shafts are correctly aligned. In any case in and out
movement is part of the alignment process, if the flange were permanently
fixed to the column tube that couldn't happen, so it must move. But as I say
the flange is not a separate part in the catalogues, only a rubber sealing
gasket that goes between the flange and the toe-board.
PaulH.
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