Advice on Bridgeport converted to CNC for sale

Ok story still to come...

Here are the details on the machine - picture heavy.
Its a 5VK.
Owner said it was running - all working - and it "lost its perimeter set". was shoved to the side, and sat for a decade.
A month ago - they started a clean out - and declutter.
Now it's outside.

Condition says that at least some of that is true.
Machine does not have a lot of rust on it.
Looks like it made its last cut and hasn't been cleaned since.
Smells of decade old cutting oil - past even being sticky.
Cleaned off a few spots - surface grease and dust but nothing unremovable.
Nothing looks badly rusted.
Grease and dirt version of cosmoline protectant you could say.

Mostly seems all there.
Kinda stunned.
Even had a coolant tray.
Power draw bar.
Central oiler
A couple of plates missing was most I could find.
Buttons not worn out.

I mean - Its communist dark gray - my least favorite color
And It is enormous for a garage machine.
And there are no hand wheels of any kind for moving the table
But I kinda love it.

Would like to get it out of there before any minds change - but can only move so fast.
It weighs 4K#s.
Can turn everything by hand smoothly with what I tried.

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Motor & VFD.
No clue what HP this thing is.
VFD was nice surprise.
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That's a lot of machine, but a bit dirty. :)

Looks to be pretty much complete. The spindle motor is 5HP, machine looks to be wired for 240V.

The only thing I didn't see in the pictures are the servo drives, they have to be in the electrical cabinet somewhere.
 
Lotta pictures...
(So much for my elegant small Bridgeport)
What do you make of the "it was working until it lost it's perimeter set"?
The intonation was - all spindles and movements were operational - but the computer couldn't understand where the positions were.
 
The parameters and many times the operating system are saved in volatile memory, held there by a battery. When the battery goes dead, the parameters are gone. The battery would normally be replaced every few years, guess they missed the warnings, and didn't have a hard copy. This is not that unusual in older machines.

Once the parameters are gone, everything should be fine, but the computer has no idea what to do with anything and has pretty much lost its mind.
 
I thought you were insistent about having a manual capability?

Edit: insistent, not instant
 
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