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Hi, I am new here, but thought the group may be interested in my recent experience in fitting a VFD to this lathe. I wanted to achieve a few things in doing this. Firstly, while the lathe is in good order, it has a nasty slap when it starts due to taking up the the spur gear drive backlash. I wanted a soft start to remove this to reduce wear on the machine. Secondly, I wanted to reduce stopping time as my lathe does not have the brake motor. Next I wanted to operate the VFD via the existing apron forward/reverse/start lever with a simple speed control potentiometers and RPM readout. Finally I wanted to run to slightly higher speed, say 2500 rpm for insert tip tools. If there is interest in the details of how I did this, please let me know. Cheers