Hi Jamied

I've not had much to do with CNC lathes but I'm sure there are others on here that have so keep asking, someone will answer soon.

As far as starting from scratch then there are far to many options.

Have you tryed Gary at Zapp? I'm sure he has experience in retro fitting lathes. To me its fairly simple just put motors where the hand wheels go and let Mach 3 do the rest, but in reality there is the fact that Mach wont know or care if it punges the toolpost into the chuck.