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When I got my RF 31 it had been damaged and the knob that usually turns to allow the drill press arm feed or fine feed was broken off.
When I try to turn the stub of a knob with pliers it won't budge. Stuck on fine feed and fine feed works well.
Question is how does the knob usually work? Is it just an ordinary right hand thread knob and I should put more pressure trying to loosen it? Is it supposed to pull out first and then turn? Is it left hand turn so when I am trying to loosen it is really tightening? How does one use that knob regularly to change from one to the other? Never having used one without it broken I don't know.
Any ideas of what may have been damaged with the knob being broken off if anything. It was hit hard with a hammer like object to break it.
Since I use the fine feed and don't really need the drill press feed should I leave it alone because loosening it might do something and make the fine feed not work with whatever damage there may be in there? For someone who has had it apart and knows what is on that shaft is there something that could be broken and would be a problem if that knob is loosened?
When I try to turn the stub of a knob with pliers it won't budge. Stuck on fine feed and fine feed works well.
Question is how does the knob usually work? Is it just an ordinary right hand thread knob and I should put more pressure trying to loosen it? Is it supposed to pull out first and then turn? Is it left hand turn so when I am trying to loosen it is really tightening? How does one use that knob regularly to change from one to the other? Never having used one without it broken I don't know.
Any ideas of what may have been damaged with the knob being broken off if anything. It was hit hard with a hammer like object to break it.
Since I use the fine feed and don't really need the drill press feed should I leave it alone because loosening it might do something and make the fine feed not work with whatever damage there may be in there? For someone who has had it apart and knows what is on that shaft is there something that could be broken and would be a problem if that knob is loosened?