Category: Milling Machines
Hi Chris,
I've opened mine and I can see how it works. I suspect the vertical and horizontal quills are identical enough that we could swap them.
The bolt with the sleeve is item 2 on the drawing. If you replaced the head of the bolt with a Kipps handle it would work like the vertical clamping handle. So that sleeve will push on the 2 arced pieces like in my photos on page 171, and clamp around the quill.
You have to remove the cover plug to get to the bolt head. Take out the 5mm grub screw and use a normal 5mm bolt to pull it out.Once loose, the quill should be free. Remember to disconnect the hydraulic elbow item 5 at the rear and the feather key underneath the slide item 6. I would think that the quill would slide without removing the front seal system item 4, but it may be full of dirt like mine.
If you look closely you can see the type of markings on the spline they talk about for reassembly. That's on a different spline though.
Looks pretty easy.
Good luck with it,
David
