I have a great way to toughen up the gears in your hoot gear box. you are going to need a bag of charcoal,bone meal from health food store, coffee can, tub of water, campfire, file from home depot,and a blow torch.
remove all gears from your hoot gearbox with a gear puller, grind up 20 bricks of charcoal, and 50 tablets of bone meal put this charcoal and gears into the coffee can cover top with a rock, make campfire around can, so that the carbon will infuse into the steel, the temperature must be maintained above red heat for greater than an hour. take coffee can and dump gears and charcoal into water. after the gears have cooled polish the face of the gear so you can see white metal. use the blow torch to heat each gear until the color of the polish face turns a color that is like week old urine color do not let it turn blue keep at temperature for 10 minutes. let air cool. you are hardening with the water dup and drawing a temper with the brown yellow on the gears.
the biggest problem of the hoot boxes is that the gears are not tempered correctly. you are changing the steel and drawing the correct temper.
remove all gears from your hoot gearbox with a gear puller, grind up 20 bricks of charcoal, and 50 tablets of bone meal put this charcoal and gears into the coffee can cover top with a rock, make campfire around can, so that the carbon will infuse into the steel, the temperature must be maintained above red heat for greater than an hour. take coffee can and dump gears and charcoal into water. after the gears have cooled polish the face of the gear so you can see white metal. use the blow torch to heat each gear until the color of the polish face turns a color that is like week old urine color do not let it turn blue keep at temperature for 10 minutes. let air cool. you are hardening with the water dup and drawing a temper with the brown yellow on the gears.
the biggest problem of the hoot boxes is that the gears are not tempered correctly. you are changing the steel and drawing the correct temper.