I recon you're missing an opportunity here Dean. Get Joe in as optical consultant and then get John to pop over from Melbourne and build you an add-on Z-axis assembly that can grind kitchen bench offcuts into surface plates for cash at the weekend when nobody's looking.

Kit

PS Joe is that really a swimming pool in Pommieland?! I hope it's got solar heating. Even in Perth we only used ours for a few months around Christmas.