Rich, I wouldn’t bother, it is rare that you will want to turn anything longer than 10”, I did in one of our early contacts mention that you would probably find this to be the case, as about 90% of all the use of the lathe is within 10” of the chuck, in the 20+ years I have had my V13 I think I have only once needed to turn a piece of more than 500mm long, I do now feel the travel tighten as I move the carriage towards the tailstock, but it is of no consequence, one of the big plusses is that the headstock of these lathes is removable from the bed which simplifies the grinding if you decide to have the bed reground, chuck a piece of bar preferably at least 1” diameter and make a test cut over a 10” length and measure any difference between the two ends, but I would do nothing until you find it is a problem. I set it to work comfortably near the headstock, I can still traverse the full bed length but it does tighten up slightly.

Frank. ?

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