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The column was bolted to the base using 1" square nuts up in a recess, so I had to make a square socket in
order to remove them. The big rod in the foreground is the counterweight. That light-colored tab on the column
is a weathered wood block that holds a pulley in place inside the column casting- there's two like that,
that the chain rides on as you raise and lower the quill. (Modern drills of course use a spring.)
Next up, cleaning and derusting!





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