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[John S.]

Dave,
Power drawbar wouldn't suit me, didn't build one but had one of the butterfly wrenches hanging on a bungy cord over the old one for a while to see if it would work for me.

Couple of reasons, one is my compressor fills two 45 gallon tanks as I have two compressors mounted side by side but only run one so it take a fair while to run up and I tend to only run air when I need it, like the air tapper I have. Most days i don't have air on.

Secondly as part of my job I often have to reduce motor shaft to the next frame size down, like 28 to 24, this still leaves a shallow keyway which has to be picked up and made deeper to standard size.
On the Bridgy and clones it hard to turn the small smooth part at the bottom of the spindle to get the teeth of the cutter exactly central in the groove when you load a new shaft in. In this case i need access to the drawbar to turn it with a stubby spanner.

Last reason is I often have to swap to the right angled attachment that bolts to the quill, because these need the quill extended by about 3" the drawbar has the be changed to a longer one.