On 15/02/2017 13:57, Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Wed, 15 Feb 2017 11:44:52 +0000, GB wrote:

Am I understanding this correctly, the only thing holding the chuck in
place is that it has a tapered shank that fits in a tapered hole?

Yes, expect the hole is in the chuck and the spindle has the shank.

I have a similar cheap pillar drill, chuck does very occasionally
fall of.

Yup, same here... giving both chuck and spindle a good clean and then
applying a small amount of loctite seemed to solve the problem of it
dropping off.



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Cheers,

John.

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