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- Fri Nov 10, 2006 9:34 pm
- Forum: General Woodworking
- Topic: Cleaning The Quill
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Cleaning the Quill
A word of caution after unwinding the quill. If you turn the quill feed in a counter-clockwise (CCW) rotation, the quill spring can come unhooked. It can be a bear to rehook the spring but not impossible. I always just tighten the quill lock handle and place the quill feed stop handle down so I don'...
- Sun Nov 05, 2006 8:02 pm
- Forum: General Woodworking
- Topic: Sticky Quill
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sticky quill
The quills that I repaired that was sticking all had this problem. The keyway(groove) in the quill for the setscrew that holds the quill in had vibrated/rubbed againest the top of the keyway causing a very slight burr. I took a metal file and deburred the edge on each side of the keyway (a little wi...