Ok, so my bearings finaly turned up today, and I managed to make a start on the bearing blocks for the X axis. These two cast iron blocks were already on the table, so just required boring to accept a pait of angular bearings on one end, and a pair of deep groove bearings on the other. A quick 5 minute boring job....oh wait, I forgot it took me around an hour to mount the things on the lathe first! Nevermind, just need to make the spacer for the AC bearings, and the bearing-block caps to hold the bearings in place.
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