Hi everyone. When Grizzly was closing out the South Bend SB1001 (8k, 8x18) lathe as few years ago, I bought one. Recently I bought a really nice CNC conversion kit for this lathe from Billy Dirks of BDTools. Billy no longer makes the kit, because the lathe is no longer sold, but he has CNC conversion kits for other lathes. Regardless, the SB1001 conversion kit has nice ways to face the challenges of converting this small lathe. I made a video detailing the installation of the conversion kit, assembling some electronics from left over parts from other projects, and setting up LinuxCNC. I'll make another video in the near future after installing the final electronics. I've never operated a CNC lathe before so this is all pretty new to me. Best wishes, Kent



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