Many years ago I purchased an incomplete BV20L 9x22 lathe from eBay, (I think it is 9x22, it's hard to find specs) it was missing a few items such as the electric motor, motor pulley, chuck, various gears for thread cutting and the tailstock but apart from that all appeared to be in good condition.

The missing items besides the tailstock (which I will try to track down eventually) didn't bother me as I planned to convert it to CNC as you all know a lot of items are discarded during this process.

So this thing has been sitting in my way ever since, I’ve moved it around various parts of the garage over the years.

I've decided it is time to do something about it as it will be handy to have a CNC lathe around.

So figure I will start a build thread on it that will hopefully motivate me to start and hopefully finish it.

Thankfully over the years I have also collected a bunch of parts so I should actually have most of it to piece it together.

Anyway here are a few photos.