Please Help Stuck Faceplate

[Chip Wooten]

I just purchased a Jet 1014 mini lathe. I got a great deal on it but the face plate is stuck. The face plate is round with no flat areas for a wrench. I have already bent a punch trying to get it unstuck. What can I do??? Thanks for your help!

[VECtor Calls]

Have you hosed the connection down with some kind of break-free yet? 

I use some of that drawer liner material to grab my metal parts better when they are ticking me off.  If things still fail, I reach for the WD-40 and let it soak.

After a soak and it still won't come off, I would send it into a deep freezer or a walk in freezer for a couple hours and then give it a rip.

A couple good swift hits with a hammer to the faceplate could do some good somewhere in the process too.

[FDR]

The area of contact is where the faceplate and spindle touch. Oil that joint with a good thin oil.  The face plate has 4 holes. Take a 1x2 board 24 inches long and drill a hole to match one of the holes in the face plate. insert a bolt through the board and the face plate and place a nut on the spindle side. Mark the second hole in the faceplate and repeat above. You should now have a 24 inch lever attached to the faceplate with 2 bolts. Lock the spindle and apply some force to the lever. It should break loose. If not, tap the lever with a mallet. If it still will not come loose use a heat gun to warm the joint.

[LagrueCustomCalls]

Our two favorite penetrating oils in the 'old car biz' are

PB Blaster

Rat Piss (mix of acetone and atf)

[Scott Ward]

Extreme cold weather has been a game changer for breaking some frozen threads in my personal experience. To simulate, buy a can of keyboard/electronic duster, turn it upside down, and get a freeze spray instead of duster.

[VECtor Calls]

That's a good tip Scott. I will keep that trick in mind.

PB Blaster is what I was trying to think of this morning.

[Tom Hamilton]

You could try a strap wrench.

Happy Turning - Tom

[LagrueCustomCalls]

Auto parts stores sell a product made to do exactly what Scott suggested which is even more effective. I think CRC might be the manufacturer.

[VECtor Calls]

We need an update Chip!!  ;)

[Chip Wooten]

Sorry for the delay. I am going to try some of these methods. The one issue I have is that I'm not sure how to lock the spindle. It is round with no square edges. The lathe is a JET 1014 mini lathe.

[Chip Wooten]

UPDATE: I've bent things I didn't know were possible to bend and still no luck getting the face plate off

[FDR]

Heat gun!!

[stumpjumper]

One word......KROIL

http://www.kanolabs.com

Stump

[B.Meuchel]

X2 on the kroil. That is the greatest stuff I've ever used.