Is the Ecoca EL4610e a good candidate for a retrofit?

the_crack_fox wrote: I Bought this machine and put an Adtech 4620 controller on it.

Well, I hope that works out well for you, but means that this forum is not likely to be any help.

I have just purchased one of these lathes and I'm looking to retrofit/upgrade the control system. And I found myself here. I was wondering how did this conversion work out? Did you manage to retain the apron handwheel operation?

You can certainly retain handwheel operation with LinuxCNC. My own lathe has jogwheels in the conventional locations for just this reason.

Thanks for the speedy reply. I will have the lathe home by the end of this week, then I can have a better look at what I am dealing with. At the moment it has a communication to NC unit issue. Trying to decide if I look into that first so I can assess the rest of the machine or just jump straight into the retrofit. Don't want to waste too much time/money fixing a problem that may well be redundant.