OK, so the spindle finally died on this old machine. Ran it up to 6k rpm and the motor stalls out after about 20 seconds of running. Tried again at 4k, same thing. When I try to manually turn the spindle it's difficult at best to turn by hand.

I'm trying to pull the spindle out and just won't come out. I've unscrewed the bolts on the bottom ring face, the set screw on the side, pulled the snap rings off the top and this thing just doesn't want to come out... is there a trick? Has anyone else replaced one? Did a search on here and wasn't able to find anything. I'm up a creek and was right in the middle of my first production run on these parts.

Novakon John, will the new spindle cartridge fit in these old NM200 heads?

Thanks,
Josh