Pete.
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VFD turned up today, much smaller than I imagined which is good but solid feel. Will wire it up tomorrow night and get the lathe turning then organise a plan to get the lathe painted and reassembled.
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Are you planning to use the front panel for your primary controls? I'd advise against that, you'll make the VFD look very second hand in no time and wear the buttons out using them all the time.
BTW I use a normal paint scraper with quite a thick blade for stripping paint off cast iron, but I sharpen it a LOT, probably 5-10 times an hour. It really ploughs the paint off. Most paint scrapers are so blunt they are near to useless and people don't even realise it.