Walter,
You're response is unbecoming of an elder statesman of pen turning. To describe Maurice and or I as being full of our own self importance is outrageously rude and downright inappropriate.
I, nor I suspect Maurice for whom I have no authority to speak for but is able, and I suspect will do in time, have not fooled ourselves. You have failed to answer a question which I posed, as to how you should fit a draw bar on a tail stock drill fitted with a telescopic quill. Please enlighten me, because if it is possible I would be grateful to know how.
I offered no opinion nor advice, as to the drilling speed but merely a method as to how the chuck could be maintained in the tail stock taper when the drill is withdrawn, I am yet to be made aware of an appropriate solution or one that is less likely to render me into an instant A and E case. But to not ensure the chuck taper is securely held in its position whilst withdrawing it is totally foolhardy, or anyone who assumes it is going to be held with total certainty in position withdrawing at whatever speed is, to use your expression, fooling themselves.
