Hello again Ian,and anybobody following this thread, that sounds like a real labour of love, it must have been fastinating working on such a machine. Any chance of a picture of it, now THAT would be worth looking at. Keep up the good work,you remind me of a late friend of mine, he was always turning up parts for people on his lathe, he used to race a Manx Norton during Chris's era, cheers, Mal.