Hello everybody, I have a Sharp GF 9292 with the little rubber grommet problem that´s been mentioned in a post a couple of years ago for a GF9696  :

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By the way the solution described worked fine with my GF-6060!!

Now I have a GF-9292 with the same problem : the little piece of rubber has turned into oil, but given the GF 9292 mechanism looks the same as the GF 9696, I have a simple question : how can I remove  the capstan? The 9292 has the same plastic wheel attached to the capstan as in your 9696 (see picture) :

It seems that first it is neccesary to remove the little white plastic wheel . i don´t know how to do that and I don´t want to make a mistake and break the little piece.

Please I´ll be very thankful if anybody can help me indicating how to do that.

Thanks in advance

just pull the flywhell from behind the mech and the needle will come out leaving that pully behind...be carefull not to lose the tiny washers