In the machsuport forums under show and tel there a number of people running retrofitted Hardinge cnc lathes as well as others. depending on the voltage and current requirements there are Various servo drives compatible with MACH3 as al the man said you must be sure that the encoders are are just that and not resolvers. also the price of steppers has come down so that may be an option as well however, I would recommend staying with the servo's both would require new drives.
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Originally Posted by bdphillips03  Hello. Hope this is the right forum.
I have an older small (8" swing) CNC lathe that uses encoders with servo drives. It also has a 8 station tool turret. It uses a Fanuc 6T style controller. BTW this was made by Rhino Robotics (ST/8) back in 1991.
My question. Is there a way to change and use a PC type driven controller? I emailed the nice folks at Mach and they said I would have to retro fit the lathe with steppers in order to use their software 
Thanks for any advice.
Brian |