65 Fairlane pro-touring build

[Vic1947]

That's a smokin' deal. Actual Bridgeports are built like tanks so it doesn't surprise me that it's still in good operating condition. Does your phase converter allow the machine to instant reverse? The one I had required a complex relay wiring scheme to reverse instantly. Before installing the relays, if you tried to reverse out of a tapped hole, for instance, it just kept going in the forward direction. (Not good!) You could stop the machine and reverse would then work, but I needed it to instant reverse like they do when connected to actual three phase.