Quote Originally Posted by Pete92 View Post
Well from other people I have talked to the motors are very odd. So I am most likely to replace them for modern stepper motors.
Ron had the right idea by dumping the whole electronics and motors. I've converted a few small Lathes and usually the only thing worth keeping is the DC spindle Speed controller, which sounds like you don't have one.?

Motors are often underpowered and weedy so for sake £60 for 2 motors it's not worth the not doing if your keeping. If you want to spend some money and get great accuracy and repeatability with closed loop then buy the Leadshine hybrid closed loop stepper system, they come complete with Digital drives and are pretty much plug and play. . . More money but perfect for lathes.

Yes Mach will accept individual inputs for both Home and Limits for upto 6 Axis. Each axis can also share the same Input for Both Home and limit sensors so reducing the amount of inputs you'll need.!