Never happen. The auction houses will never limit their audience like that, it'll cut into the profits. Remember the more folks the higher the prices. Nice idea though.
You could probably buy the quill inexpensively from ebay or from a dealer. But if you wnat to roll your own you might put in a bronze insert for the threads, that's how my small pratt whitney lathe was done, and it comes out nice. I had to re-make the ram for that tailstock as well. Basically a cylindrical OD nut that fits into a counterbored recess in the backside of the ram, and a roll pin to hold it there.
Never have used paypal, never will. There are plenty of sellers on ebay who will take a personal check, and wait for it to clear at their end. Sometimes it means a trip to the post office to get a money order, sometimes just cash in the mail. But so far I've been pretty lucky and never been stung, at all, from a bad seller. But nobody gets account information or credit card nos. from me.
Jim
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