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Ahh, that makes sense! Not a ham radio guy, but have friends that used to love that.

To follow up the original question, I disassembled the quill and pinion shaft yesterday. Everything looks good, spring intact. Lots of friction in spring housing, took a small file and smoothed the edges of the ...

JPG wrote: Wed Jun 11, 2025 8:53 pmAre you a ham?

No, but I am smoking a pork butt this weekend?

These are excellent ideas, I'll give these a try and let you know if it doesn't work!
Thanks,
Wes

If the quill moves freely when not drilling/boring, the likely culprit is a dull drill bit or exceptionally hard wood. If the quill is binding even when you just try to advance it without drilling/boring then that suggests to me it is time to remove and inspect the quill to make sure there are no ...

Hello all!

I have a PowerPro, works well, except the quill is very difficulty to extend such as during drilling or boring operations. Quill is lubricated, retaining set screw on top is loose/not binding. Hold-downs are unscrewed so not binding.

Any thoughts or suggestions? Do I need to replace the ...

JPG, perfect diagnosis and treatment. Works much better now after loosening up the tension and a fit of Johnson's wax on the rails! Thanks!

Just picked up a used Mark 7. Works great, except I noticed yesterday the display appeared to be failing. Parts of it work, parts of it don't. Not sure where to start with this:

Thanks, Ed. Looks like that app will do the trick! I'll try it.

I bet you are right. I tried to take the screws out, 3 came out fine, 2 are stuck in there like me on mashed potatoes and gravy. I soaked them and will try to back them out later. Thanks!

Ed, how did you resize it on the iPhone? did you use the crop function in the edit function?