First of all, greetings to all! This is my first post here and i decided to show some work, that i am doing on a Emcoturn 220P lathe. It's a long story behind this lathe, it's been sitting still in my garage for almost 2 years, but in January i finally started to work on it. It's a slow project, as i have a lot of work (self employed) and not a lot of free time when you also count in two little kids
So this project will be done a bit different... I am not a fan of any PC based system for automation at all, so i decided for a standalone chinese controller. The machine will be sort of a testing mule for this controller, so maybe later i can also convert some other, bigger machines.
First plan was just to make an electronic/electric retrofit, without touching the mechanics. But when i started to take it apart, i just couldn't leave it like that, so i decided to take it apart completely...
So let's start with some pictures of the machine during disassembly...