Touch screen??

[Muzzer]

Good to see it. Even better if you can bring yourself to drill a few holes in the machine itself - that might keep the knob polishers at bay if you ever need to trade it in for something better.

[Doddy]

Good to see it. Even better if you can bring yourself to drill a few holes in the machine itself - that might keep the knob polishers at bay if you ever need to trade it in for something better.

Any conversion, it's important to understand what your goals are - for me, it's a lathe that fits a small nook in the shed, and still allows me to squeeze into the work area near the mill. Not, as you might say, polishing the knobs.

I've got to the stage where I've more bits stripped off the machine, than what remains on the machine. A tipping point where I can start to sell off bits rather than wistfully think of future restoration. Bed, spindle and saddle is all that I have left of the machine, and a bag of bits that is getting close to paying off what I originally spent on the machine.