Thanks and I know it's going to be alot work but I enjoy tinkering with machinery. I found the same Speedstar VFD that you went with on ebay for $950.00. Is this in the neighborhood of what you picked yours up for. Also I had a question on the servo's did you use the stock brake or go with the optional brake they offer with the teco servos from machmotion. That's pertaining to the Z axis of course. I was doing some more research on line about the factory specs of this machine. I couldn't find anything "official" from Bridgeport, but I did find other people selling the same year machine. They all say the spindle is 10hp and go up to 10,000 rpm. Does this sound right as I know you said yours would only go 6,000 rpm. It also says the stock rapid speed was 472 ipm. I remember reading your post and you were saying yours came stock with somewhere in around 300ipm. Did they advance the machine that much in 2 years or is the resellers information incorrect. I was also thinking maybe there was different optional equipment available at the time of the original purchase. Any thoughts on that. Thanks