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Making a Rotary Table
awemawson:
Very happy to help and equally glad that it worked out ok for you :thumbup:
...advice based on decades of having to make do and mend :ddb:
dsquire:
Norman
Glad to see that it is all coming together 1 piece at a time. I sometimes think that making tools to make tools is more fun and relaxing than making widgets. Keep up the good work. I may bot be saying much but I am watching from the background. :D :D
Cheers :beer:
Don
NormanV:
Whilst I had the 5mm cutter in the milling machine I thought that I would machine the slots for clamping the table in position when in use in a horizontal position. I've also drilled holes for clamping it vertically.
Manxmodder:
--- Quote from: dsquire on September 13, 2014, 04:55:48 PM ---Norman
Glad to see that it is all coming together 1 piece at a time. I sometimes think that making tools to make tools is more fun and relaxing than making widgets. Keep up the good work. I may bot be saying much but I am watching from the background. :D :D
Cheers :beer:
Don
--- End quote ---
Agree with you Don,and the added bonus being the more tools one endeavors to make the more experienced and competent one gets as a tool maker :thumbup:.......OZ.
NormanV:
The next part needed some thinking, I have never handled a dividing head or rotary table and was not quite sure how you use the division plates and sector arms. I had a read of Dave Gingery's book on the dividing head and managed to work it out.
Yesterday I made the pattern for the support for the handle and mount for the plates and arms. Most of my patterns are made from MDF, which is horrible stuff when you have a lot of shaping and sanding, but this one I made from mahogany. It was lovely stuff to work with. Also up to now I have used two part car body filler for the fillets. This does a good job but is a lot of work sanding to remove the lumps and bumps. This time I used a water based wood filler, it was much easier to apply as it has a longer setting time. After about twenty minutes I wetted my finger and smoothed it down leaving hardly any sanding to do. The only disadvantage to using it is the two hour setting time but it is worth it due to the convenience of use.
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