When I wrote this I wrongly said the cross slide was damaged but PM actually said it's the compound slide. As mentioned before, the compound slide was loose and that's about it. Either way, after further inspection I don't see any damage to either. The cross slide runs the entire length of the ways extremely smoothly. The tail stock seems to get caught up occasionally. When it slides it zips along, but it doesn't seem to want to release after clamping. I am going to have to look into it, hopefully it's just a matter of getting the thing cleaned and lubed up I'll note, this is the first lathe I have owned (though I have plenty of time using one) so many of these adjustments are totally new to me. It's also not exactly super clean having sat in an open crate in the warehouse for however long. Otherwise I just need to look through the boxes and start assembling bits. I have the bench about 60% built, it's not particularly amazing, but the plan is to get the thing running to so I can use it in the near future. Then once I get through the CNC conversion I'll build a steel enclosure and add coolant like I did for my G0704.
The G0704 continues to run. Another knockoff proximity sensor died today, this time on the Z axis while about 2/3's of the way through a 6 hour program. I just overrode it and hit start. The program completed beautifully. UCCNC is incredible in scenarios like this, with Mach3 the part would likely be scrap. The part appears to be about .00025" on the large side. I can deal with that. Now that i have a lathe (or soon will) I am going to do version two of the PDB, specifically the drawbar itself and the top side bearing/mount. Hopefully I get concentricity really dialed in this time. The last two I did on my buddies clapped out Cincinnati (more than enough lathe for most projects), but with the bellevilles and 6k RPM it's really never been good enough, IMO. I even bought my buddy a new live center thinking that would help, and it did, but the results just aren't great.