[TheForge] Drill Press replace the chuck

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

Mark:
Just for giggles, open the old chuck up all the way and look up in there 
with a flashlite.
 I ran into one that had a retaining screw in there that had to be 
removed before I could use wedges to remove the chuck.....things were 
pretty battered before I figured it out....Pete F

Darrell wrote:

>Mark,
>Tom just described how to remove a morse taper chuck. A Jacobs taper chuck
>is removed by driving a tapered wedge between the chuck and the quill. A
>tapered fork that will just fit around the quill just above the chuck works
>a lot easier than a plain wedge.
>Darrell
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>From: "Thomas A. Troszak" <tom at tomtroszak.com>
>To: <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
>Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 9:44 AM
>Subject: [TheForge] Drill Press replace the chuck
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>>>Message: 2
>>>Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 17:29:48 -0400
>>>From: "Mark A. Pesetsky" <pesetsky at Princeton.EDU>
>>>Subject: [TheForge] Drill Press
>>>I have a craftsman 12" drill press that i want to replace the chuck on.
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>>>have a nice ALBRECHT that I want to put on it. What I am going to need
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>>>know is what type of arbor is on the press.
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>>Dear Mark,
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>>extend the quill of the press all the way, then look for a small slot or
>>opening (if there is one) in the side of the quill, then turn the spindle
>>until the slot in the spindle lines up with the slot in the quill, and you
>>will be looking through at the end of the chuck stem, or adapter.
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>>Now place a board or box on the table of the press to catch the chuck, or
>>just pick it up off the floor when you are finished.
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>>There should have been a little flat tapered wedge/key thingy that came
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>>the press,  (If you don't still have it, it is easy to make) you just
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>>the narrow end into the slots, and tap it in between the slot and the end
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>>the chuck stem, and the chuck just falls out. (may take a pretty good bash
>>or two the first time, if the chuck has never been out before)
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>>this kind of takes three hands to do, because the quill wants to snap back
>>up into the head, but I do it all the time on my Sears/Jet drill presses.
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>>Tom
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