I am going to have to move the light fitting as with that away I think I will only have about 6mm clearance.
Hood

That's a dandy size control cabinet, should ave ample room for all of the goodies.
Best suited for open area around the machine. Space there is at a premium though, right ?
This will be an interesting project.
Thanks Hood,
Russ

Not much space is right
Good thing about that machine is the table stays still an the column moves front to back, left to right so no need to allow space at either side for table movement :0

Now I suppose I better start trying to tidy the workshop, not one of my favourite pastimes I am afraid
Hood

Heres a pic inside the cabinet, loads of room to fit my stuff as you say
Also there is the space below where I took a huge transformer out of, I dont nee the transformer as the drives I have will come right off the mains and I will just have 24v PSU rather than having to take that off the main transformer as it was originally done.

....... the table stays still an the column moves front to back, left to right 
 
Hood

I didn't realize this.
Might have overlooked it if posted earlier, or missed it in the video.
Sort of like a gantry type bed mill I suppose, never saw one like this.
Seems it would be a less rigid set-up then a regular bed type.
Plenty of mass ?

Russ

Looks like it just fits there. Are you going to rotate it or leave it that way, facing the gate, so you have access to the cabinet?

I too didn't realise the table didn't move at all. You posted it earlier, but I thought the column was only moving in the Y and the table was doing the X. It is interesting to have a closer look at the mechanism and especially the guards.

Dan

Russ, I kind of mentioned it without actually mentioning it
It is all linear rails, they are quite nice ones, not sure the make but 4 ball tracks per truck. The machine itself weighs in at about 3Tonne (6600lbs approx) might be a bit lighter now as I reckon the bleeding transformer must weigh 1/2 tonne, either that or I am getting old as I could only lift ne end at a time onto a small pallet

Dan I am just leaving it that way, had originally intended having the cabinet at the door end but the way the base is it would have meant I couldnt get enough in to get skates on before the chains from the crane were hitting the building. It actually turns out there may be advantages to the way it is as it means anything heavy that is going on it just needs to come in the workshop door and right onto the table 
I can get into the cabinet fine, as you see in the last pic posted I have left enough room between it and the lathe to get the doors swung open :0

Hood

Heres a pic from the side showing the X axis covers.
Hood

Yep, fits like a "glove"! 

Congrats, Hood, I'm sure you'll have endless hours of fun playing with this one......or at least until you get bored or sick of it and want something different 

Dave

Ha ha this will take me a while, if I worked on it steady then maybe 3 or 4 weeks but with having to make money to pay the bills I reckon it will be getting on for a year.
One last pic for now, heres the X axis cover slid back to show the rails and ballscrew.
Hood