Help! Boxford 125 TCL CNC lathe

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ok, this is an ideal lathe to convert to Mach3, which is a pc based controller.

Inside the Boxford 125 you'll have 2 stepper drives, a spindle drive, a power supply, and a motherboard.
It may look a bit more complicated than that, but that's basically what you have.
What you need to get to allow a computer with Mach3 installed on it to operate the Lathe is:

1. A breakout board - to interface the computer to the lathe
2. A 0-10v isolated spindle drive board - to interface the breakout board to the spindle drive
3. You may need some form of level shifter to allow the breakout board (5v logic) to control the stepper drivers (12v logic)

That's about it, you ditch the old boxford controller and wire in the items above.

Oh yes i nearly forgot, a lot of patience.