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I am in a pickle here, I took apart a chain drive Jennings 10 cent escalator as it was a mess and needed the sprocket shafts cleaned. Now I can't seam to get the chain on the gears right so it will work. I understand there are three ways this chain will go on, and only one right way, so far I can only find the wrong ways! Does it matter where the drive sprocket, (left grear) sits or is lined up as the top of this sprocket will ratchet to almost any position so I would think this gear doesn't matter. Have you found an easy way to put this chain on right the first time? As for the right or cam sprocket, I know you need to line it up so a coin can fall under the sensing pin. Can anyone make this easer for me as I don't want to have to keep takeing this apart.

Thanks
Jackpot

Hello,
With the Jennings chain, the way i did it was to remove the left gear(handle side) and put the chain on and reattatch the gear. The front of the chain needs to be tight, and the back of the chain will be loose. This will allow the coins to move easily along. Line up the coin tabs so the coin detector hits the play coin and thecoins are even along the front.

youngjedi wrote:Hello,
With the Jennings chain, the way i did it was to remove the left gear(handle side) and put the chain on and reattatch the gear. The front of the chain needs to be tight, and the back of the chain will be loose. This will allow the coins to move easily along. Line up the coin tabs so the coin detector hits the play coin and thecoins are even along the front.

Thank you, I am going out to work on it again now and any and all ideas are really apreciated! Thank you Kind Sir..........
Jackpot

Jackpot wrote:OK,

I am in a pickle here, I took apart a chain drive Jennings 10 cent escalator as it was a mess and needed the sprocket shafts cleaned. Now I can't seam to get the chain on the gears right so it will work. I understand there are three ways this chain will go on, and only one right way, so far I can only find the wrong ways! Does it matter where the drive sprocket, (left grear) sits or is lined up as the top of this sprocket will ratchet to almost any position so I would think this gear doesn't matter. Have you found an easy way to put this chain on right the first time? As for the right or cam sprocket, I know you need to line it up so a coin can fall under the sensing pin. Can anyone make this easer for me as I don't want to have to keep takeing this apart.

Thanks
Jackpot

OK, I won the battle on this chain thing, it wasn't the chain after all, it was on the levers needing just little adjustments over and over again to get it just right so the dam think would work just right, the outside of the locking lever needed a little mushing as ware to the metal would not allow the lever to kick out just enough to release the sprocket cam, so I mushed it some with my 5 pound Mr. Mer, (hammer) and that did the trick, It was either that or build it up the outside edge of the release or sprocket holding lever with a weld and grind it down again. Just a little mushing did the trick and it is happy now.
Thank You
Jackpot