now to add a ball slide to the carriage!!! my enco lathe is horrific, but I do very little nowadays had many more updates to do to it but I looks like I wont be doing them.Ill leave all that up to you. at least it runs extremely quiet, vs as I got it you could barely stay in the shop as it was so much noises comming from the gears.then the carrage travel nut wasent on the same plane as the leadscrew...and so on. when I called enco (MSC) they tottaly disowned it....thier tags, thier colors, thier crate...well I got it the week MSC shut down enco. so they just acted like they never made/sold that junk... never ordered from MSC again. I had been rdering from them for 40 years or more. gotta love big corporation's... they dont give a **** execp for the current order amount...and if it;s paid yet.. they were the parrent co, you would think they would have some sort of quality control on that ****...none at all.