The second piece is for the cap, I've rough (rough bring the operative word!!) turned the first piece but should really have bought a longer piece of Ali...so I'm going to turn a shoulder in the end of the first piece to more accurately hold it in the jaws (so I can then finish machine out the jaw marks) then finish machine, bore it for the bearings and part off ( couldn't get the parting off tool near enough without hitting the jaws before)...

Well that's the cunning plan anyway ;-)

What's the easiest way to accurately drill the holes for mounting the motor without any sort of indexing head/table anyone?