Reply To: Naerok mill spindle runout

[von dutchParticipant @vondutch]

Mine is badged “Naerok rdm400m”,I have found a lot of information on various forums and I downloaded a light manual for it from this forum.I also bought a “generic” manual from Tony on lathes uk site and it is very informative but really for the warco and rf 30 round column mills.There are similarities but would be nice to find a specific manual if there ever was one.Yes I’m excited to do lots of mods to mine to improve it,I fitted a 12v power feed to my myford lathe using a wiper motor and made the pulleys.One thing I’m gonna do first I think is make a power feed to move the head up and down,I can’t make my mind up though to either use a wiper motor again,or go down the stepper motor route,later I want to make power feed for x axis as well.I’m leaning towards stepper motor idea(although I have no experience with these!),coz maybe if I want to move column to final position,I think you can turn motor by hand with no signal.Maybe ha ha I dunno need more research.Yule tide blessings all.