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OK, maybe I should have said Nick's information in the video may be incomplete. I thought I was adding some valuable info for those who might be confused by the video, as I was. All I know is I was led astray when I relied on it. Since he said the probe would go all the way in on a single bearing ...

It seems Nick got this kind of wrong. The single bearing quills I have seen have a dust shield that stops an Allen wrench about 2 inches in. If you use a probe thin enough to get past that, it goes nearly to the other end. On the double bearing quill, the bearing that stops the probe is about 4 1/4 ...