Thanks for the video! I'll be watching as you go along. I think these lathes get a lot of grief, but they are certainly fun and capable enough. I think as a CNC machine, these could be pretty great for making fasteners.
Have you swapped out the headstock bearings to angular contact or tapered roller bearings? I'm actually going to do that in the next week or so and change out my gears to metal. I'm also installing a 5C collet.