I really like your top and cam clamp. How are you going to control the degrees? Say four example you need 10 cuts.
-Tim ----- Original Message ----- From: Andrew Martin To: legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2011 4:27 PM Subject: homemade rotary table Ok...I finally got a chance to play with my HF rotary table. It turned out working great! I started by making a table that mounted to the underside of the rails. I did have to rabbet the table on the ends to bring the table up slightly so the teflon table i mounted on top wouldn't hit the rails. I then took a scrap piece of T-track and inserted it into the table in an orientation that allowed the shaft of the rotary table to line up with the center line of the chuck i currently have installed on the mill. Once i had the HF rotary table mounted, I removed it and drilled out the shaft and tapped a 1/4"-20 thread then inserted a 1/4" bolt. I then used a 7/16" socket with an extension and mounted it in the chuck and...whoala!!!!...my HF rotary table can now link up with my X-axis. Now the 3" table was a little small, so I had some teflon laying around. I mounted it to the rotary table using the t-track in the table and then counter sunk the nylon lock nuts. Once i had it mounted, I used the mill to cut it about 11" round, then used my t-track bit to cut t-track in the teflon. Surprisingly, the hysteresis in the HF rotary table isn't bad. You can actually adjust the hysteresis by adjusting a set screw on the side of it which pushes the worm gear attached to the shaft closer to the driven gear. However, the more you push it into the driven gear, the harder it is to turn, so I had to pick a happy-medium. The HF table has a high gear ratio of 36:1 so doing any spiraled rosettes is out of the question until i get the .25 gear reducer for the mill. But until then, I'm sure i'll have some fun with it. Andrew -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Legacy Ornamental Mills" group. To post to this group, send email to legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to legacy-ornamental-mills+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/legacy-ornamental-mills?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Legacy Ornamental Mills" group. To post to this group, send email to legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to legacy-ornamental-mills+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/legacy-ornamental-mills?hl=en.
