Ah guys..

What jewels you are.. Think you have saved me a costly (for me) mistake with the chinese spindle.. And Florin, your comments make perfect sense.. So, a Kress FM 1050-1 it is! Guess it should be ok for some light ally work although in my engineering days 5000 rpm would have seemed a tad fast..

Like Michael, I would very much like to know how you wire a Kress to a board, I have a System 3 which has the spindle on/off option on it..

Thanks to all who advised me, am just popping my cherry with cnc and the advice on this forum is invaluable to noobs like me.. Have not posted pics of my machine yet, give me a week or two and will do so.. Looks like someone lobbed a couple of grenades into B&Q at the moment..

Thanks
Steve..