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Originally posted by joeg:
Rust...I would think...is holding it in.
Mighty powerful stuff, that stuff. Nature's Loctite!
Funny you should mention that... I tried to take apart a tool carousel on a machining center yesterday for a customer. It is basically a big disc with two huge tapered bearings in the center to spin on. Anyway, the bearings were swimming in water-based coolant for about 3 years with no maintenance, and a 6 foot prybar, along with over 200lbs at the end of it (me) and gravity to assist couldn't make it budge. Acetylene torch did what brute force could not, but it wasn't pretty, that's for sure.