Retrofitting a 1986 Maho MH400E

Hello David
Yes I have had the spindle our several times and lubricated the bearings with the special Kluber grease. The hydraulic unit comes off no problem but I cant get to the spring washers
On mine the very long drilling to the sight tube was clogged and it took a lot of rodding out to fix. It's hard to read through the sight hole
I will check this out. Thankyou
Cheers Chris .

I did recall you said you would be away.
I'll have a quick try on mine by simply loosening that clamp bolt. I didn't realize before that is all it takes.
With the hydraulic pipe elbow removed the assembly should come out whole.
Then the only tricky part was warming the thread on the hydraulic ram so the Locktite came free.

David
Yes and mine has the hand adjuster on the top slide same as the one in the photo
Makes it easy to adjust the Z spindle.
My phone camera is damaged. I have to replace it so I can send you some images
Cheers Chris

A photo would be nice. If I pull the quill in my top slide forward, it would break the hydraulic pipe at the rear elbow. It would be nice to see how your one allows movement. It's too blurry in your photo.
Before you remove the hydraulic ram you have to remove the screw in the clasp claws and unscrew the claw assembly. The when the hydraulic ram is removed all the springs come out with the ram. Maybe you draw rod is broken?
Cheers,
David

I'm wrong again. It occurred to me that if your one has the hand wheel on the top slide then you will have to pull that whole assembly out before pulling out the quill as the rack teeth don't go the full length of the quill. I don't know how you do that on your version and my manual for the vertical quill didn't have an explanation that there was a scotch key retaining it.
Cheers,
David

Guys, rather than burying all this good MAHO 700C retrofit information deep on page 173 of a thread on the MH400E, why not start a specific thread on the 700C so that people in the future looking for that information will have a chance of actually finding it.