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Even non meth-amphetamine addicts can strip these 10-32 brass nuts.  I turn the wrench like this or use a nut-driver.

Meth-amphetamine addicts: STOP NOW.  Take generator to qualified service personnel.  You know what happens here, right?  Every time.  You have no nerve endings left in your hands.  You cannot do work this delicate.  Give up. 
Make sure everything is spotlessly clean and especially this bearing cover.  Dirt and grime in a precision ball bearing is not good.

Meth-amphetamine addicts: STOP NOW.  Take generator to qualified service personnel.  You will have lost this piece by now and yes, it really is needed.

The gear will only start on the shaft as it is a light press fit.  Some gears do just slide on.  Make sure it has started on ok and put the big washer and nut on and you can pull it on as tighten the nut.  Factory uses nylon prevailing torque nut.  I substitute regular 1/4-28 nut and a pair of the trick Disk-Lock lockwashers.  A real touch here as you need to feel the subtle difference of the gear pulling on and, once it all the way on, the increase in torque as the nut tightens.  These 1/4-28 threads strip easy.  Be careful.  Insert goofy zen parable here about ending up where we started. (Except for the oil leak.)

Meth-amphetamine addicts: STOP NOW.  Take generator to qualified service personnel.  The more common 1/4-20 course thread nuts will ruin the armature (and the end bell studs for that matter).
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