Yes...it works like this...

Press down a little...lock bolts...try out...um nope...

Press down a little harder...lock bolts...try out...um not quite...

Press down even a little harder...lock bolts...try out....ummmm....close enough...

Trial and error...

Unfortunately as the generations have gone by - slack has been removed from the Phil as well as the long thread space. And now instead of a smooth spit out the back - it is a constipated spit of the spoke out the back. I simply do not like the current generation of the Phil Wood machine. I prefer the older ones up to the late 90s, early 2000s.

=8-)