Huyndai hit 15s retrofit

Its not a bad looking lathe, from what i can tell it cut mostly plastic and a lil aluminum. The guy i got it from said they changed the z ball screw but he also told me that if i powered it up i can see the alarms, but he was full of shit lol. He was pretty dishonest lol but what can i expect i bought it at a auction sight unseen.

I still need to get a chuck but i wanna wait til i get it moving before i do, im picking up a 3phase generator next week so i may be able to move the axis with a small battery mabe

Might be worth looking at whether it can run off single phase. The servo drives convert to DC internally (and then back to AC) so they don't care.

It might take a bit of analysis to work out what the input stages are, but you might find a separate 3-phase input transformer and rectifier stage that will just work happily on single phase.

That would be great if it would work but im not sure how to even figure it out, heres some pics of the transformer, goes from 220 3p in to 400v 3p out 

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And the mock up of the panel, got another computer to try out, does better than the rest so far. Its a hp elite 8300 sff

The transfomer seems to be there to account for connection to either 400V three-phase or 220V 3-phase.
There are a couple of single-phase outputs too.

I think you would need to look at what happen downstream of that transformer to work out if a single-phase rework is feasible.

40kW is a lot of power to generate with a convertor.