Sorry to repost this, but this post was supposed to relate to the one by
Jerry Foster, not to my own post.
Pete Stanaitis
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spaco wrote:

Good Thought!
How about warming the spindle, then inserting the tube from a can of
"circuit freezer" up into the collet to cool and shrink it, while the
spindle is still warm--- "Circuit freezer" used to be freon 12, but
whatever you can get that cools rapidly as it expands would work. CO2
cartridges (in an appropriate dispenser), for example. A 100 degree
difference between the two would yield a shrink of 6 tenths of a thou.

Pete Stanaits
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Jerry Foster wrote:

Sometimes, when the collet is put in when the machine is warm
(especially if
the collet is cool...) and tightened down real good, it can
be a bit of a challenge to get it out, even if it hasn't been
sitting. This
is especially true if it has gotten cold in the shop in the mean time...
Try putting a heat lamp on the spindle. And soaking it down with
penetrating oil wouldn't hurt anything, either.

Jerry

"Jeff" wrote in message
. ..

Does any one have any tricks for removing a #9 B&S collet from a milling
machine that has probably been sitting for a long time? I've tried the
method described in the manual as well as a lead hammer on the draw bar,


but

it will not budge.

Jeff