Well, the threaded inserts came today, so spent this evening running programs to create the recesses and holes. Had 3 files to run, about an hour each. All went well until the last one.
I didn't get the bit extended far enough and the collet was rubbing on the wood. So stopped that job and unfortunately wasn't paying attention and didn't have the bit up high enough before hitting return to zero.
I got a new bit inserted, zero'd, and was off to the races....so I thought. It didn't start the cut at the previous hole, but was making a new one.
Thinking I had knocked it out of zero, I re-zeroed at the corner of the work and started again. Towards the end of the job I noticed that some of the holes were oblong. Turns out I didn't knock it out of zero, just knocked the work out of position. The space here should have been tight to the leg of the table.
Looks like I'll probably cut a new piece of plywood and re-do that part of the job. I may just enlarge the holes in the mdf with a drill bit to make it work.
From a distance it looks good, but will not work with the inserts I have.
So long story short. The machine did great, just user error.
Dust collection wasn't what I had hoped, so will work on a new boot design and probably consider getting another HF DC sooner, rather than later.
Oh, but the lathe head and tail stocks that got off ebay did show up today, and the 6" chuck from Grizzly yesterday.
Now that I have them, I can finalize the design for the rotary bed.
I got the pulley/belt removed from the head stock. Unfortunately it's a 20mm bore and I have a 14mm bored pulley. I'll put the new mini lathe to work as its got just enough meat to make it 20mm.