Recent content by SavageGardener

I understand your confusion, I re-read the post and I'm really bad at nomenclature, I'm sorry. I've finally found a drawing of the parts, well, the caption isn't of my particular model but everything looks exactly the same, and I can see the missing bits. If you look at it my garbled rambling...

I think the "bearing" was in fact a single ball bearing like at the front of the main shaft. You can see the front bearing has a ball and behind the ball a couple of plates. If you look closely (I'm not sure the photo will bear the zooming in required) you can see the rear plates squished in to...

Well, I bit the bullet and went for brute force. It worked and it would appear that I actually had no option. Something has melted at the brushes end of the rotor allowing a lot of play in the system. Nothing seems to have broken and all of the gears (all metal, I'm pleased to note) are...

I'm not sure what an automatic clutch would be like before, but the noise is definitely in the self destructing gearbox league. It's possible, but what would that mean for the disassembly?

Ok, here's a couple more pictures of my currently foiled attempts at getting this drill open. I've checked for screws under the labels - nope. I Googled for drawings and schematics and the best I could find was not at a high enough resolution to show anything I'd missed. The only screws in...

Thanks for the swift replys guys. I'll give all of them consideration as soon as I get back to the drill - life is getting in the way just now. I'll post an update and some more pictures in a bit.

I have an OLD, that's bought in the early 80's old, apparently Swiss built Bosch SB 400-2 hammer drill. It has worked perfectly every time I've used it and I've never had a moment's problem with it, until now. It seems to have lost a gear tooth in the reduction mechanism, at least that's what I...