| Hi Mankster,
If your making the machine portable so it can be put away give a lot of thought to how you will mount the machine. The bed has to be seen to have no twist. Even a small machione can twist the bed if its not secured well and set up using an engineers level. Even on a ship that rolls the machine will be leveled in this way.
Dont forget to run a test cut on a bar to see if your headstock is true. Use the saddle to take the cut. once your happy with that set a lump of bar up in the chuck centre the tailstock in the bar and do another cut to check the tailstock alignment. You have no hope of true cuts with out doing this.
The test bars should be as long as you can get away with in the machine and no more than a few thou each time. I like my machines to be good to a thou or so in a foot. And yes you can do that before any one shouts lol ;-)
kevin |