I did exactly what you said and problems fixed. For anyone curious, the whole f******g headstock was full of sunflower seeds binding up the quill pinion. Also for anyone who uses a shopvac on their machines to suck out sunflower seeds, make sure you dont have loose parts still on or you will suck up your clutch cone and lose the keyway key in your shopvac full of metal shavings.
Guy before me had the mice I bought the mill, a lathe an a cabinet full of tooling at an estate sale a little over a year ago and when I went through the tooling cabinet it was packed full of sunflower seeds as well.
Surely not the everyday problem! I dont got rodent problems where Im at now but Id still like to keep junk outta there, what hole through the ram is it your talking about because after taking it apart and finding that Im still dumbfound on how they could have gotten all those sunflower seeds in there.
