A kinder, gentler way to remove the tailstock center is to use the handwheel
to retract the tailstock quill until the center drops
out...............Barry


"AWood70928" wrote in message
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I can't thank you all enough. I was having a fit trying to figure out how
to
get the Live Center out of the tail stock spindle. Anyway, I got home
from
work tonight and took another look at it and used a wood dowl and hit it
with a
rubber mallet and it poped right out. Now I can go get a drill chuck.
Thanks
again.

Al