[How-To] Pm-1340gt quil will not extend

[poorboy]

Hi,

First time posting here. I received my 1340gt a while ago and I am just starting to use it now. This is my first time using a lathe, so everything is a new experience for me. The tail stock worked fine - I was able to extend and contract the quil without any issues. I inserted a live center into the tail stock's quil and contracted the quil so that the live center was ejected. Now the issue is that I cannot extend the quil anymore (the hand wheel simply wont budge) - any ideas here of what went wrong and how to go about fixing this ?

thanks

Adam

 

[poorboy]

Never mind - I was able to get it working again by using some persuasion on the hand wheel. It seems to get stuck when its fully contracted and take a lot of effort to get the quil extended.

 

[Christianstark]

Can you reach in and try to pull on the quill while moving the wheel back and forth lightly?