Here are some videos of my finished lathe in action.

First task was to remove all the parts that are not required on a CNC lathe.

Items removed:

• Feed gears
• Feed gearbox
• Apron gearbox
• Compound slide
• Leadscrews and rack

I listed all this stuff on Ebay and recouped $200 towards the project. 

I hired a ute and collected the lathe from Machinery Warehouse.

Getting off the ute with a forklift was easy, but unfortunately I did not have room to move it around using the fork.

So, I moved it into place with a pallet trolley and lifted it onto the stand with an engine hoist.

Naturally, there is quite a bit of stripping involved to remove parts not required for the CNC conversion.

This includes feed gearbox, apron gearbox, leadscrews, compound slide and the main gear train.

Here are some pics before and after.

It took about 2 hours to get to this stage.