This beautifully crafted, home-built Mk 2 Dore-Westbury incorporates a number modifications. Amongst other improvements is a very effective a table-feed gearbox (from a kit of parts supplied by Model Engineering Services), a slot cut into the horizontal head arm to maintain alignment as the head is slid backs and forwards, screw-adjustable table stops and a test-dial dial indicator fitted to show the precise travel of the quill down-feed.
One problem that can occur with the Dore Westbury is the difficulty in raising the column. Some owners have adapted a hydraulic jack to assist in this task, while this enthusiast (who has fitted an exceptionally high column) has rigged a very special solution a ceiling-mounted pulley. See pictures of how this was arranged at the bottom of the page..