It seems you believe I'm planning on mating an X1 base to an X2 base... not my intent- that would be way too much work with not nearly enough payoff, and if I were planning on going that route, I'd probably put more time into finding someone who could supply me with a honkin' big chunk of cast iron and start totally from scratch (I started a thread on that idea about a month or so ago- I'm having BIG problems finding c. iron suppliers who don't either want a grand for the piece I'm looking for (roughly 12X24X4 inches) or who will supply me with only 1 piece instead of several tons at once... argh!). While that option is still under (back-burner) exploration, I was saying to take 2 Sx1 bases and mate them in a similar manner Hoss did with the X2 freak. My thought is that the travel in the sX1 base is supposed to have about 7 inches in travel (according to a friend with one and several websites who mention it) as-is. If I could take 2 bases, bolt them togather and do a little machining on them, I could possibly get 14 inches total travel before machining everything else (screw mounts, saddle, etc.). With all of that, I might even get more than 14 total. With Hoss's articulating head spacer (plus a little more) and the super-rigid back brace I made for the column I have already, it could be a fully usable 14+ inch Y machine.
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