My Build - I blame you lot for this....!

[John S]

Don't bother centre drilling, centre drills are a throw back to when you used dead centres in a lathe and the pip is to hold white lead as a lubricant.

Unless you actually need a centre hole for a lathe, use spotting drills then the size drill or even better is to buy a few good quality stub drills and just use these to start and finish the holes, saves hours of time and being short and stubby they are hard to break

[HiltonSteve]

Only used centre drill to pre-chamfer the holes before drilling and tapping, just happen to have one next to the machine that was the right size.

Seemed like a good idea at the time!

[John S]

Get one of these.

[HiltonSteve]

Get one of these.

Smart arse....

[Lee Roberts]

Get one of these.

What is one of these John?

Bed plate looks very nice Steve, will be emailing you later on with some parts to be cut :).

[HiltonSteve]

Bed plate looks very nice Steve, will be emailing you later on with some parts to be cut :).

Thought that you was ignoring me....!

Still got those ballscrews and ballnuts of yours, let me know what you want doing with them and I will get them sorted for you.