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BellyDoc previously said:
The joke is on YOU, Kurt... this thread is turning out to be a resource FOR me... not OF me!!!!
The drift didn't work. I almost impacted it to the point of not being able to retrieve it. I actually deformed it.
I also tried tapping (aggressively) onto the end of the threaded rod which pulls it up into the spindle with two nuts on top. Nothing.
The gear puller method is my next try. I'll have to detatch the entire head and flip it. I already tried clamping the tool holder into the vice on the crossfeed table and then lever up on the quill... no go. I can't get a real gear puller into the space. I also don't have the center to push on so I have to make a tool just to do this job. It's going to have to push on the steel surface of the head and pull on the tool holder.
The failure here was in moving out of town for a year and then coming back to my shop which had the last set-up still in place.
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That sucks!!! I still don't quite get it though: Morse tapers are self holding, and the mill shouldn't have a drawbar as well. That really would stick it in there.
Good luck! Maybe the penetrating oil is the best bet. I sprayed WD40 in to an old 67 Yamaha Twin 100 religiously for half a year, once a week, and I freed a motor that was seized for 20 plus years...
