Hi Everyone,
We tried to take apart the enlarger today. We were able to unscrew the bolts that connected the base of the enlarger to the steel shaft but then we got stuck. The focusing knob connects to a rod that rises parallel with the giant steel column. If you look at this old picture you will see that the rod connects to a set of gears. To remove the gears from the rod we have to take out a pin. The problem is that we can not get the pin out. We are so close to dismantling it but so far away. This pin is just incredibly stuck. It might be soldered on. Please take a look at the videos. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Photograph of gears:
This video shows the dilemma we are dealing with. We removed the base but can not remove the focusing rod:
This is a video of us looking for the pin: https://youtu.be/xrAyVknW-iE
This video shows our first (sloppy) attempt at trying to knock out the pin. Overtime we got a better angle on it but we still could not knock it out: https://youtu.be/H_ZRLihUKws
This is what the pin looks like. I don’t think we can remove the gears before we remove it. Also we may not need to remove the gears if it connects to the focusing rod we might just need to remove the rod: https://youtu.be/lnzZ2mW7fHg
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