Please Help Me Find the Source Of Click Noise

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Please Help Me Find the Source Of Click Noise

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I have attached a video of this Victrola motor and you can hear an intermittent click noise. Nothing seems to be hitting.
Thanks!
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Dave is the head of the locking screw on the brass spindle gear just barely hitting some of the teeth on the big drive gear as it passes by.
The sound is certainly rotational with the spindle and brass spindle gear.

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I think Larry is correct. Notice, the click happens only when the set screw on the brass spindle is in the 9 o'clock position, which puts it just adjacent to the drive gear.

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I guess it is time to admit that I need magnifiers. I suspected the source of the noise was just as you guys suggested, but I did not see anything hitting until I used a magnifying glass. Time for an Optivisor.

Thanks for the help.

Thanks to Jerry Van for the very entertaining click noise video. I watched it several times...
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This very same defect I had in one of my HMVs. The design there is pretty tight, and time and wear make things misadjust slightly, so things that were slightly apart when new, end colliding with time. I found it difficult to repair. I believe I ended turning the brass spindle gear upside down or something, because it is possible. in fact, i forgot what position it was when i bought the machine! Only in factory designs and drawings (maybe in the oiling diagram too) one can see how was it intended to be originally. In several of my machines it works well in both positions. When you install the gear with the screw towards the top motor plate it never hits the bull gear anymore, although it is difficult to screw the set screw across that narrow space, you'll need a long screwdriver to reach the screw.
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