Wow, what a great a thread guys! Thanks for all the info. I'm going to check out those links!

I added the HarborF indexing tools (what can I say, they were so cheap and there they were, looking right at me).

Yay me!!! I cut my first piece of metal last night!! I needed a BVM sized reducer to a robart strut. And I made one myself last night!!! (But I forgot to take a pic!)

The last one I made cost me $50. Not bad, but finding a machine shop to do it (and those guys have ULTIMATE bankers hours) and then getting there before they close, yada, yada, yada...

That quick change tool post is OMMFG necessary. I probably would have stopped right then and there if I had to change out the tools the old way.

Even with my one, first piece made, it is obvious how much there is to learn and I can already sense the limitations such a small machine may have.

I had to try "facing" like 5 times before my center "nipple" was acceptably gone!

I also found it very strange that mini lathe forums are FAR and FEW between.

Maybe this can be a subforum RCU mods?