Mini Lathe (Emco Compact 5) CNC Conversion

and the results were not too bad:

...and among all the changes the sender has now got 3D rendering of lathe toolpaths.

The machine will get a new leadscrew soon, got a second hand ballscrew from Korea that I'll attempt to mount. The BLDC motor was a joke, I have switched to a washing machine motor and a VFD controller - a lot more torque.

I have added two wizards to my GCode Sender to simplify testing.

Turning - for reducing stock diameter:

Threading:

The threading wizard is ported from a utility written by Stephan Brunker for Mach3 (from FreeBasic to C#). Wizards for facing and parting to be added. Lots of testing required as all this is dangerous stuff.