On Sun, 23 Jan 2022, John Figie wrote: > While looking at your photos I realized that I could have almost the same > rotary table. It was recently given to me. Mine is a craftsman and is > mounted on an x-y cross slide. but some of the castings look the same to me > in the picture. Yours has a larger diameter wheel for rotary motion with 3' > graduations while mine has 25' I have not used it yet and so far the only > project that I was considering required it to be mounted vertically instead > of horizontally. I really don't think I need the x-y cross slide and that > part of the table seems kind of weak and makes the table only usable for > light duty work in my opinion. So I like Andy's idea of mounting it by the > dovetail. In my case I think I would just mill the dovetail in a steel > plate. I happen to have a 6" x 6" x 1.25" chunk. Then I would use it with > an angle plate. > > As for making the dovetail longer and making longer gibs, I think that > should be easy because the gibs in my cross slides are not tapered. > > https://photos.app.goo.gl/LKqYyhrobTuNMJir6 > > John Figie
It looks like Palmgren had a passel of those. https://vintagemachinery.org/pubs/2459/16973.pdf _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
