yup, that would make sense. Has anyone you know of done anything to extend the Y axis travel on the RF45 type mills?

switching gears again, Is there a reason people don't mount their encoders directly to the ballscrew? I've ordered my ballscrews with a bit of meat on the end with the intention of attaching the encoder to it to reduce any error introduced by the pulley and belt drive from the servo. It seems like a trivial amount of extra work, but I haven't seen any builds that implement it.