Jay Kir
06-05-2009, 10:28 AM
Hi guys.
I am in the market for a mini lathe (I'll be making tool handles and short things like that, and I might get hooked onto faceplate work, but I know it's a slippery slope). I have a large lathe on which I haven't done much turning, and which I'll be selling at some point. So, now I have my sights set on the Rikon 70-100 mini that Woodcraft has on sale at $260 till the end of the month. I've seen some posts that described some problems (2006) with this model, but I assume they have corrected them by now.
Well, besides runout (which I guess you can evaluate at the chuck headstock end), how can one find out if the tailstock and spindle are co-axial? Is there anything one should be looking for, say, for example, if I happen to a _used_ mini lathe?
Jay
I am in the market for a mini lathe (I'll be making tool handles and short things like that, and I might get hooked onto faceplate work, but I know it's a slippery slope). I have a large lathe on which I haven't done much turning, and which I'll be selling at some point. So, now I have my sights set on the Rikon 70-100 mini that Woodcraft has on sale at $260 till the end of the month. I've seen some posts that described some problems (2006) with this model, but I assume they have corrected them by now.
Well, besides runout (which I guess you can evaluate at the chuck headstock end), how can one find out if the tailstock and spindle are co-axial? Is there anything one should be looking for, say, for example, if I happen to a _used_ mini lathe?
Jay