I cannot engage power quill feed on PM-1054

[stupoty]

In order to show the level of abuse that my new knee mill is seeing, here’s a picture of the result of the tool crash. I don’t know if it matters, but this boring bar is made in China. It is supposed to be straight, ya know.

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Interesting, I went a bit hard with that style of bar recently on my lathe and the tip just snapped at the angular to round bit area.

Stu