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Always a pleasure happymacer - play it forward, as you've done :)

Yes, WD Hearn has a site, which has changed a little since I last visited :

http://www.wdhearn.co.za/contactus.asp

I'll...

hiya happymacer!

Thanks for the tip on the left hand thread and bearings. I don't see mention being made of torque setting in the manual, just "tighten bolt X" ! A cheap and nasty method I've...

I've seen what I think you may be refering to being spoken about by other RF owners :- if the column base is slightly off the vertical, you may get what you describe. I recall one RF owner using...

Thanks happymacer - I found your info most useful as well ... particularly given that I was about to order a set of R8 collets :)

With regard to the bearing replacement you performed - does...

Update :

Finelinehair.com has the RF-20 manual amongst its list of wonderful links :

http://www.finelinehair.com/home/Rong-Fu_RF-25_Mill_manual.pdf

... which is, as mentioned before, near...

Hi myford,

As luck would have it, I bought an RF-20 today and found the manual of the HF-33686 to be near identical.

http://www.harborfreight.com/manuals/33000-33999/33686.PDF

The RF-20...