anatomy of the carve tight spindle

[t-townwilson]

this is ridiculous! It won't budge!! How in the world did this happen anyway?

I watched a video of how to remove the spindle, and maybe I need to do that. Maybe it would be easier than working upside down. but I don't have the required flat wrench.

[Chris77089]

You can take the y-truck off without the flat wrench and that will let you bring the y and z-trucks both out of the machine to give you more room.

[cestout]

Looks like the barrel rolled around so the paw? is hidden and the hidden part isn't. Take the Z truck off so you can work on it. Pull the screw almost all the way out and see if you can roll the barrel 180 deg.
Clint

[ratmouse]

This is the clamping paw ...the most elusive animal on the internet .....I could not find a picture of it anywhere ...I dropped min in the machine and had to tear it half apart to find the paw .