The drivers going back to zapp so will let you know the outcome. Had the x and y working tonight tho :) wrote a bit of text and drew some basic shapes. Can't wait to get the z going and makin some real parts!!

will post some pics and vids on my build log at some point.

Got it a few questions with the setup in Mach:
as soon as the reset button is pressed the spindle starts and gets upto speed, can I change this so the spindle starts once a program is run? I've tried a m5 code but this did nothing.
The text I wrote was mirrored in comparison to the desired is this due to the axis direction not being set up, if so how do you specify the +/- direction of an axis in Mach.
Also the text was around half the size it should have been. In the motor tuning the steps per, is that 200 or, the the microsteps/ballscrew pitch?
running the spindle via Mach, what should the base frequency be?