I'm installing my new Tradesman 13" 12-speed drillpress and I am having problems with the "next to the last" step. Figures, huh?
As instructed, I cleaned the tapered hole in the chuck and the tapered surface of the arbor and set the arbor into the chuck. This worked fine. Next, I lowered the spindle (by turning the feed handles anticlockwise) until the slot appeared on the side. Again ... no problem.
NOW ... I'm instructed to push the chuck and spindle arbor up into the spindle to "engage" and "lock" it in the inner slot of the spindle.
Through the slot, I can see the upper narrow end of the spindle arbor shank going into the spindle as described. But I can't figure out how to "lock" it into place.
Am I supposed to push harder? What exactly locks this into place?
Would anyone out there know how to do this with the Tradesman? Thanks!
Jack