Just thought I'd throw an update out here.

Finally made my first cuts. Spent a full couple days chasing some very frustrating electrical gremlins. The cause seems to have been that my material that I was cutting was not grounded to the actual machine. It was up on temporary wood blocks while I was cutting out my slat holders. Never even gave it any thought but I think it was causing some voltage spikes & randomly kicked Mach into reset mode.

I will post some more progress pics here soon.