[Bloy2004]

Hi Devinchi,
I too have a key inside the mill spindle that is waiting to be shaved down. I picked up a nice set of r8 collets on eBay and finally got around to needing to use them. But, the keyways are too shallow for the deeper key in the spindle. Yah! That was crazy. I'm going to get a collet holder with inserts anyway so i'm not going to take it(the key) out until I have to.... That may be sooner if the collet holder keyway can't be deepened.
What's going on with that belt/pulley interference? I didn't notice any restrictions other than the crank hits the protective hood, but only when it is about as high as it goes?
I'm not saying much negatively because I know that for the price this shoptask is well worth it. I WILL say that some of the places they chose to cut costs on the machine were inappropriate....yet nothing that can't be rectified by the user.