Hi,

My local makerspace (in Norway) is currently finishing up converting a Boxford 125 TCL to LinuxCNC/PathPilot (we are documenting it as we go along and plan on posting the details later when we have finished everything).

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The lathe include the turret but didn't come with any tooling. We have started to realise that getting the proper tooling is harder than expected due to lacking documentation (and knowledge) and the Boxford deviating a bit from other lathes.

We believe the 125 TCL and 160 TCL share the same turret and there is some information to be had from the "Replacing the cuting tools on a Boxford TCL 160" thread. To our understanding the turret originally used tools with 9mm shank, but 10mm will also fit. However we aren't certain about this fact. Due to our lacking experience we would rather not gamble and order the wrong tools based on wrong assumptions.

Could anyone help us out with suggesting proper modern alternatives to use for the cutting tools (tools and carbide inserts)? To my understanding we should include a left hand and a right hand cutting tool, external threading tool and a part off tool. In addition suggestions for the 4 internal tools would also be highly appreciated.

Thanks.