Unusual affair

Fine this morning as it is, not a small Earthquake happened soon after dawn in Kinki area must have brought uncountable influences, Hankyu Rail Way Kobe line was stopped, probably all lines? Their operating diagrams this morning must have been destroyed completely. The origine of the quake is the same as Big disaster of Hanshin Awaji, that obliges me the perception, never happens again at the same place because the stress has been released. So, I changed my to take train to come to my working place by car, SUBARU BLE 3L model. Though some traffic clouding way imagined, I could arrived to the destination without delay. We should realize again that we are far from controlling Nature, the power of it is far beyond to our imaginations.

A steering gear box equipped in air-cooled VW 1303 Super Beetle was fully disassembled last night to confirm the criminal that has been causing some clicking reaction on the specific operating way. Careful checking on the touching surfaces revealed some unnatural shinny portion at the specific inner circle end, probably this uneven wear should be the reason for the chronic clicking reaction. The criminal would be constrained after checking by painting the surfaces and assembling both of the worm gears with actual operation, reporting later about this procedure. In addition, not a little amount of granular hard dust were recognized in the lubricant, they might be reason for the inconvenience? Shining point is observed on the opposing surfaces in both in and out worm gears. Such kind of problem under less quality control must have caused in the production line at that time, to whom shall I complain on this phenomena? But, as to my surprise, the surface of one piece finished input worm gear piece was processed by means of TAFT riding process coating technology, we didn't have such a sophisticated way at all over 40 years ago, I appreciate German industrial development at that period of time. Anyway, I feel that I could find the way to solve this problem on the steering gear box with a fair amount of certainty.