Spindle on a 8mm lathe

William
I placed one end in my ER32 collet and the other end in my 3 jaw chuck. I tried it one time before and nothing happened, this time I was going to get something to do something or else. It finally started to turn. I backed the tailstock off and revolved it several times, but it was not moving. After looking at it closely I thought I would press the shaft toward the front of the spindle. That did it, it was a very tight press fit with a pin in it. When I pressed the shaft out it took a lot of pressure and it kind of mushroomed the about .750 on the end of the shaft tub. I haven’t finished it yet but it has it’s collet pin in it and works nice. Here is a pic of it in pieces and you can see the swell on the end of the spindle shaft.
Nelson

Nic
You did not hijack the thread. The information would be valuable to others also with like problems. My lathe was abused and in time I will get it all worked out. I put the pin in the shaft and found the right way to disassemble it. The split nut and cover was missing and not knowing what I was doing did not hurt anything. I’m going to make a nut from a piece of stress proof steel and harden afterward. I have accumulated quite a few accessories, a very nice flip top tool post, a filing set up and many gravers. That is a subject that has just fascinated me. It doesn’t take anytime to master the gravers, I’ve used them on stainless on my South Bend 10K, worked real nice. I have enjoyed all I learn and will continue to learn.
Cheers
Nelson