sorry it has been so long on this, but, the lathe control is working great!! He actually cut one part and then he did several, the machine will hold about 2/10ths across average parts!!
The down side is the machine is down right now cause the guy that speced the right angle trasfer drives speced them to weak, and the X and Z Drives (1kw ADC's) stripped out the brass gears!!!
So they are gonna spec in a more powerful gear set, (such is the life of R&D).
Many, Many Thanks to Ed Gilbert of "CNCbuildingblocks" (
www.cncbuildingblocks.com), I used his super duper awesome encouder count homing boards, he helped them to play nicely with cnc4pc's Bidirectional boards, and also he helped (as a matter of fact solved), the bug of finding the magic way to get two very different drive type to play together as well. He also helped find many other digital bugs. The Man is the Yoda of Digital electronics!!!
The owner of the machine will not let me have a "Movie" of it until he gets it fully working "Right" again......
But that should be soon!!!
Will post a movie when I can,
Scott