Maximat V10P runs out

[Africanimp]

Hello members, thanks for allowing me to join your group.

I have a Maximat V10P, I guess its around fifty years old, plus?

It belonged to my good friend who had his own pro engineering shop and kept this one in his home garage for making items like fishing reels, he was a really good engineer! when he passed away I was able to purchase the Maximat from his wife.

As I have had it some time now I have sorted out certain issues and serviced and cleaned it, it has the one issue though, if I have a shaft in the chuck and run a machine tool along it towards the chuck the run out is 0.003" in only 1 9/16" which is way too much.

I have tested the run out from both sides of the shaft being cleaned up, cutting from the front it will cut deeper towards the chuck, if I then machine from the other side of the shaft it will undercut and by the same 0.003".

I see no way to adjust the gear head shaft, or the entire gear head box either, is there a fix for this problem?

Note, the beds do show wear but that will take the tool holder lower, which should not be an issue?

Has anyone got any ideas please?

Regards

Roy