Denford Software & Machines

My Viceroy drill quill feed suddenly seized - fine one day and stuck the next. Now that I've removed the quill return spring and the grub screw that holds spring housing it seems that the quill feed shaft is seized into the return spring housing. I've tried coercion, heat and brutality but can not get the return spring housing off the quill feed shaft ... what's the secret?

I'm not sure what the answer to your problem is....
but I'm just wondering if you have had a good look at the drawings in the announcements above ?

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The drawing PD1.pdf appears to show the problem area.
It may be there is a fastening still to be removed ?

Les.T.

Thanks, but I'd already had a look at those drawings. PD2-C has a cross section of the quill feed showing a circlip that mine doesn't have.
This is a baffling problem, but I think I'll have to use a Dremel to saw through the spring housing along the hole axis so that I can split it off the feed shaft. Once it's off I can clean-up the shaft and might be able to use an epoxy to fill the saw cut in the housing and either ream it out to a good fit on the shaft or fit a bush.
All a bit of a pain!

Quick note to celebrate getting the damn thing off. After lots of abuse with a 3-legged puller, a hammer and various levers it eventually, and slowly, yielded. There weren't any hidden fasteners but a piece of the housing bore had broken off and welded itself to the quill feed shaft - very strange. I reamed the hole and cleaned-up the shaft and housing in the lathe - everything now moves freely and I don't think I'll need to bush the housing.