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Installing/removing spur center, Installing/removing live center – Grizzly G0624 User Manual

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G0624 10" Benchtop Lathe

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Installing/Removing

Spur Center

The spur center installs into the headstock spin-
dle with a taper fit.

To install the spur center:

1. UNPLUG LATHE FROM POWER!

2. Insert the tapered end of the center into the

spindle, and push it in quickly and firmly (see

Figure 12).

Figure 12. Inserting spur center into spindle.

3. Check that the center is securely installed

by giving it a quick tug. (A properly installed
center will not pull out by hand.)

To remove the spur center with the knock-out

bar:

1. UNPLUG LATHE FROM POWER!

2. Hold a clean rag under the spindle or wear a

glove to catch the center when you remove
it.

3. Using the knock-out bar, tap the center from

the outside end of the spindle (as shown in

Figure 13) and catch the center as it falls
out.

Figure 13. Removing spur center using the

knock out bar.

Installing/Removing

Live Center

To install the live center:

1. Loosen the quill lock handle (if locked)

approximately half a turn counterclockwise.

2. Rotate the quill handwheel clockwise until the

tailstock quill protrudes out of the tailstock
housing about

3

4

''.

3. Insert the live center, as shown in Figure 14,

and push firmly.

Figure 14. Installing live center in tailstock.

Quill Lock Handle

Quill

Handwheel

Quill

4. Tighten the lock handle.