I recently got my hands on a 2M and proceeded over the last week to tear it down, remove a bunch of rust and remove all the old grease etc.

Ive regrease an oiled everything only to find the spindle just won't go back into the quill. Im only trying by hand but it shouldn't need anything more being what it is and how easily i separated the two.
There was another post here where someone couldn't get there's out and a response suggested not to hammer the thing because the spindle isn't hardened so i haven't tried that.

I did stupidly grease it all up with bearing grease not spindle oil in my rush to get it back together. I know the two are a tight fit but can't imagine trying to Push the spindle in just by hand as hard as i could would have damaged anything.
While our the spindle and qiill haven't sustained any knocks or drops either.

Yesterday i picked up some goodies from a guy shutting up his fabrication business and figure I'd ask him given his decades if experience. He looked at them and thought there might be a small burr it something and suggested tapping with a soft face hammer should remove it and do the trick....what are people's thoughts? Or any other suggestions?
I'll post some pics once i can figure our how to from this Dann phone browser.

I'm eager to get i all back together and use it but don't want to ruin the spindle by doing something wrong.

Bug thanks in advance for any help 👍


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