Can`t remove the backing plate

[LeMarque]

When you really get good with one, you can change backing plates on a rotary in about 10 seconds. If you really wanna get fancy when your putting the new one on, you can run the machine for a second, let off, and while its still spinning hold the backing plate up to the shaft. If you do it right it will suck the plate onto the machine. However, this was discovered and mastered out of pure boredom and serves no useful purpose whatsoever.

Style is its own reward.

Gonna try that one of these days...

[Jokeman]

I used to do this all the time, until I got fancy, spun it at 3k (ya know, just to see how fast I could get it on), let it rip, and torqued the backing plate so hard onto the spindle that it took some spinach to get it off. Now I throttle it a little and release just before it is fully on, so it glides into place.

Your nuts! You should see the scar I have on my hand from getting it caught in a backing plate! Its nasty deep.

[LeMarque]

Your nuts! You should see the scar I have on my hand from getting it caught in a backing plate! Its nasty deep.

Yikes.

Sorry you had to experience that.

I guess it is better to be safe then sorry.

[mrclean81]

I had really long hair back in high school (it was the 90s and I was into the grunge scene lol). Anyway, I wound my hair up in the shaft of an old Milwaukee rotary 2 weeks after getting it caught in the wheels of a creeper. That wasn`t a good month for me...