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You drive it out (carefully) from the other side. It's a 3" long pin with a "head" on the side you see in the photo above the USA mark. Clean up the other side a little if you can't locate the end of the the pin, and it will appear. Once it's out you can lift out the swivel jaw to clean...

Hollands keystone vise

CC motor was discontinued but is still widely used. I think some were 1/8 hp, some 1/10. Your older shaft might have a square drive which is needed for the 30/44 hand pieces. You can pull the hand piece off the shaft and check of the cable. Also, some foot speed controls are...

The quick change handpieces have a spring loaded or rotating lever that allows burr changes without needing to manipulate the chuck or find a chuck key. Users such as jewelers that might need to change between many different burrs repeatedly like these. But they are limited to 3/32 shaft burrs...

http://www.foredom.net/PartsLists/Handpc_8_8D.pdf Parts diagram for the handpiece. You need parts A and B.

That's an older #88 handpiece, now sold with a slightly modified base as the #8 general handpiece. Yours is missing the chuck. Inexpensive replacement piece HP44A from Foredom. Screws onto front end and secures the collet and burr. http://www.foredom.net/hp44A.aspx You will need...

Any spare parts for sale, sources or ideas out there to put this back in service, hopefully restored, and help me get the import off my bench. Needs a 7/8-4 main nut. Original part, which I saw on another post, had D45-4B on it, the manufacturer (Columbian) stock#. Must have been used on...

Anybody have a main vise nut for a Craftsman 506-51811 vise. Its a mid sixties, 42 pound, Columbian USA made, 5" jaw with 7/8"-4 TPI screw. Probably any nut from Columbian (D45) or Craftsman vises with that thread size would work or could be modified to work. The original part has D45-4B in...

Hey everyone. Great site. Have already learned so much. Waiting for the first cooler weather of the season here in FL later this week so the garage can be useable again. Good time to join in and get my projects on track.