Quote Originally Posted by Robin Hewitt View Post
I eject tooling using a light tap from a sledgehammer, the dead blow seems a lot gentler than lambasting it with a claw hammer.

Two things I've found, the nut on top of the Warco part was only held on with a cross pin, now brazed, and you really want to disconnect the Z feed screw before you hit it
I was always taught to use a rubber mallet on the drawbar although the one that came with the mill looks like its been attacked by an army of orges trying to forge swords for the last battle! I can get a 1m length of 1/2BSW HT studding from a place in Croydon for a tenner and thats enough to make up two drawbars; one for the mill and one for the lathe, since they both take MT3 tooling. I'll get some 1/2BSW nuts and weld them onto the studding at the appropriate end.

Is yours 1/2BSW tooling as well Robin?

Apparently the tooling is available in 12mm thread as well so I might go for that as I have 12mm die and can get 12mm rod easily as well... is there a disadvantage of 12mm over 1/2bsw (range of tooling perhaps?)