Finally got hacked off with my small unreliable lathe and upgraded it. With an extra feature, a mill.
This doubles my distance between centres, not that I normally work with long pieces anyway but gives me some minor capacity with the mill\drill. For the bits and pieces I want for the scope it's excellent and I got a good deal from a mate who is the importer. Ex Demo unused. The only thing missing was the box it originally came in.
Wish I had the thing when I started the RN 8F8 build, might have been some different ideas incorporated. But plenty of other projects to work on.