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560 chain brake issue


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Had exactly the same on my 560/562, it was wear on some little grey thing in the mechanism.

 

I ended up buying two new side plates, not really too pricey.

 

edit. The 550s are the same part, no difference in size.

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47 minutes ago, adw said:

It sounds like the quadrant in the hand guard is worn, it is not sitting into the chainbrake fully causing it to jump out which in turn pushes the cover out.

That's exactly what I was going to say. New hand guard is something like 15 quid plus vat

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As usual you are correct, all I badly tried to say was there is an engagement issue, which is probably to do with the hang guard, I forgot to ask if the brake band was not broken, they have a habit of breaking where they loop around the knee link joint, sorry for the confusion, old age does not come alone.

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Thanks, glad I am not losing it. I did have a 550 like this once. The bit of the cover that houses the latch was just not close enough to the guard not meshing well and couldn't work out if the cover had somehow bent which seemed unlikely.

I sorted the issue by removing a little metal from the top of the covers mount area thus moving the top part of the cover closer to mesh with the guard latch which it did and operated correctly after I did this. A strange one but what I did, however unorthodox, worked. 

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