I understand completly about the difficulty in finding time to work on projects! I have to squeeze in a couple of hours here & there in between working on customers projects.

I have been trying to work with materials I have on hand for my first prototype mill in order to control costs. On future mills (I plan on building at lest 3 for myself) I may change the tail to a bolt on 3003 aluminum design if weight & balance is a problem or I may go with 4130 annealed chrome moly for the tail.

I plan on bringing the ac output to the battery shed & rectify it there.