Ah, another thing. The X axis bearing close together bit. I was surprised at this myself but the maths points to it if:
Tell me more, I need to Know

My next machine, or future mod to this one, will put them closer together, but I know why I'm doing it and what I want to achieve. You'll have to decide if it works for your application. If you're not sure, go with Ross and space them out a bit.
thats the problem, that people look a designs and say "well he's done it like that and it worked" withouth understanding why.....still engineers tend to be belt and braces, think off a no. and double it (or is that the hourly rate?):whistling: