Lathe CNC Retrofit

Tim,

I'm interested in the mechanics involved with hanging steppers on a lathe.
I assume
the lead and crossfeed screws need to be replaced w/ballscrews, etc.

Anyone in the group done this?

Bob

>
>I am running a Shoptask 3 in 1 machine converted to CNC and run it in both
>lathe and mill mode. I was using DeskNC which has mill and lathe specific
>modes, but now I am using EMC and just changed the setting in my CAM package
>to spit out the lathe code as X and Y instead of the conventional X and Z.
>That change along with a separate run, ini, and parameters table has it
>working just fine.
>
>
>Tim