"Trevor Jones" wrote in message
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| Norm Dresner wrote:
|
| "Trevor Jones" wrote in message
| ...
| | FWIW I am going to call the rotating part of the drill press the
| | spindle. The adaptor between the spindle and the chuck is the arbor,
| | just so you are clear on what I am saying.
| |
|
| I have the exploded parts diagram in the instruction manual. There is
| exactly one piece which runs down from the pulley to house the chuck.
It is
| a single piece of metal that the manufacturer calls the "spindle".
There is
| no separate arbor. If you doubt me, I'd be glad to scan the diagram and
| e-mail it to you.
|
| Norm
|
| Well, amigo, it looks like you are stuck with what you got, unless you
| are willing to have at the spindle for putting a new taper on it.
|
| If there is enough meat to it to put a Morse socket into it, that would
| be the way to go, otherwise grinding the taper to the next nearest
| Jacobs taper looks to be about the only option besides a new drill
| press.
|
| If you want to, scan the diagram and put it up in the dropbox at
| www.metalworking.com where it can be accessed by all interested parties.
| The instructions for using the dropbox are at the link "using he
| dropbox" near the top of the page. The upside of that is that it may
| come useful to someone down the road.
|
| Cheers
| Trevor Jones

I'm scanning it right now and I'll drop it in as a 3-page .PDF file for the
whole manual.

Norm