For some reason my lathe tail stock arbor got stuck in the MT quill socket. I’m not certain why because it always ejects when I retract it back below ~ 0.5”. I guessed maybe I wiped it too clean or embedded a chip? It was stuck in there good. I removed the handle & unscrewed the leadscrew so I could see the end of the arbor from the end of the TS casting block. I put a rod in there & tapped it pretty good but still no go. I was worried I might damage something else so I disassembled the TS (for the first time actually). The procedure is: unscrew the lead screw so it un-threads from the quill & detaches internally, remove the double jam nuts, remove the spin handle, remove the ball off the quill lock handle & resting pin so it can unwind from the brass lateral quill lock thingy, drift out the brass thingy. Now the quill will slide out towards the headstock.
Once I had the quill out with the arbor still stuck I wasn’t too worried about drifting it a bit harder. Still no go. So I sprayed some WD-40 in the barrel & heated the quill with my heat gun, some more knocks, then it came. Whew! So no pics of that operation but I thought I’d share some internals in case you run across something similar.
Once I had the quill out with the arbor still stuck I wasn’t too worried about drifting it a bit harder. Still no go. So I sprayed some WD-40 in the barrel & heated the quill with my heat gun, some more knocks, then it came. Whew! So no pics of that operation but I thought I’d share some internals in case you run across something similar.
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& slightly cleaned up shoe in position before quill insertion. I stoned the slot sides so I did not want to remove material off the sides of the shoe. I cleaned up the nose & chamfered the burrs. Its running smooth now.
