oh yes the tapping... i may have gone a little overboard with the 12 m5 screws holding the tool post together but nothing wrong with over doing it!
Drilling was easy as i did all that with the cnc router but tapping was all by hand... wish i had a tapping head for me drill press

Electronics will eventually be my old tb6560 3 axis board driving couple of nema17 steppers. I have some nema 23 size steppers too but i think the smaller ones will do fine.
I will be running it manually for a while just to make sure it will hold up mechanically before going to cnc.
The spindle motor is a 24v 200w electric scooter motor, ive built a pwm speed controller for it and 36v linear psu tor run it. The motor will handle the 36v no problems, already ran it for quite a while varying loads and it barely got warm.