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T marks , not a silly question at all. The answer is "yes", I do extend the quill before trying to seat the arbor. You're certainly right, all tailstocks are similar in their operation. It's the way it worked on every lathe I've ever worked on, and before I retired I worked on several in the shops that employed me.Probably a silly question: did you extend the quill about an 1" before seating the arbor? The machine is designed to eject the MT arbor when you turn the quill back to 0", so it will never allow the arbor to seat until you extend the quill a bit. Not unique to this lathe, many lathes are designed like that.
People cut the tang off the arbor to get the last inch of travel, and defeat the "self ejecting" feature.
Thanks again,
Squier
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