Adrian

You have done it now you know there is no turning back :clap:. A few pieces of advice i can give you is that sometimes it is better to swallow hard and buy the right thing if you can. When you look at the cheap stuff and it does not work you then look at the next bit of cheap stuff and you end up paying twice. With that you could have just bought the more expensive item in the first place. A good place to save money is the mounts. Why use them if you can tap out the ends of the rod and put a decent beefy screw in? this also helps in that you are drilling smaller holes and better for accuracy. remember that bearings need to go onto turned down rod ends and not directly over the thread (my mistake).

I used the Chinese 5 axis all in one drivers you see on Ebay. these have worked out for me but did take a lot of working out. In hind sight i should have gone for a modularised unit as i am limited to no more that 5 amps.

Good luck!

PS set a date to first cut as it is a good kick up the jacksy when it looms i just made mine by 1 week