It's very concieveable if you have the means to mill and surface grind a new dovetail column or THK rail style column and a mating spacer for the spindle head. The fixed column extended Y base definitley has the extra capacity to handle a much bigger column than the X1 Comes with. If you do, the newly made column and Spindle could very well be done for no more cost than the X1 itself...
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