It'll be a while before I'm making chips but the machine looks to be a real bargain for the money. My only complaint so far are the bolt holes in the bases. They're tucked away in recesses under the footprint of the machine. You can't drill the holes with the machine in place, you have to drill them first and lower the machine on to the bolts. This doesn't make any sense to me and I can't do it anyway. I ended up welding pieces of angle iron to the bases that stick out in the four corners of each base. This widens the base support substantially and gives me places to put eight leveling pads that have three inch diameter rubber feet. I'll just support the machine on the rubber feet and not bolt it down at all. I ordered one of those super duper levels that is accurate to .0005 in 10 inches. The rubber mounts have about two inches of adjustment so it should be easy to level the machine and keep it level. Jonesin', jonesin', jonesin'