Seeking advice on getting a stuck sander spindle out. It is well and truly stuck.
My son, after 30 years of disinterest in the shop, has become captivated by building electric guitars. I'm delighted to have him in the shop, though am learning that I've grown even more curmudgeonly about sharing my space. Anyway, I didn't show him, and he didn't ask, about changing sanding spindles in my State T5 spindle sander.
It seems he tightened the drawbar in the spindle with a wrench, to the point where the collar that enables the releasing mechanism at the bottom sheared off when he tried to remove the spindle. So it now has a severely stuck morse taper.
We have tried every form of tapping, twisting, and pulling I can imagine. I got a set of wedges intended for removing Jacobs chucks from drill presses and couldn't budge it. Hit the end of the wedge hard enough to break it at the end. None of my usual tricks for un-sticking a morse taper are helping me here. Haven't figured out how to best apply heat/cold to the parts I can reach; I'm nervous about applying a torch to the spindle. Your thoughts are welcome.
Here's the stuck spindle in situ:
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This is what the end of the spindle is supposed to look like, with a collar pinned on ant the bottom that enables an auto-eject operation
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The drawbar from the stuck spindle. The roll pin that held the collar has been sheared off.
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