"Norm Dresner" wrote in message
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| "Trevor Jones" wrote in message
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|| Norm Dresner wrote:
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|| "Trevor Jones" wrote in message
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|| | 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
|

Done. The manual is there under the name AMT 4030 Drill Press.

Norm