Swamped

Well, if there is a way, you hope you can figure it out when you get back there. The gears probably got dented or something from all the grinding on the lever.

Hang on. Are you in the right place? All the gears you can see around here are in sets of three. But you only remember two grinding together on this lever...

Wait. You may not have found the gears, but you think you spot the... the thing the lever goes in. Is that called a fulcrum? You're not sure, it's not like you've dealt with a lot of levers in your life.

What you do know is that this thing looks like it should have a lever and it doesn't. So the gears shouldn't be too far from here, right? Seems a bit silly to grab a lever from the other side of the ship just to jam up some gears.

So you probably are in about the right place. Though, that's funny. You just noticed something next to the fulcrum or whatever. Looks like a plaque, and the letters are Common ones.

Huh. Could it be an explanation of what this lever's supposed to do? You take a closer look to check what it says.