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Nice looking setup for numbering is that held in the spin indexer and the rest made up of 123 or 456 blocks? Whatever it is a nice looking piece you have lots of patience for the graduations and numbers, my problem is my time is worth too much to me for something I can buy quite reasonable. I have 2 rotary tables a 10 inch that I imported myself plus a 3 inch I bought from one of the cdn tool suppliers when they had them on sale for $49.00. It is very small but I am sure it's adequate for small parts. tom

F350ca...
you are correct, thinning of the base will reduce the bearing area, I will leave it the way it is.
Decimals of a deg. versus DMS, I have always worked with dms and I guess I'm to old to change.
Tom Reed...
The disk is not held in the spin indexer, it's clamped against and angle plate. The spin indexer would not be solid enough to accept the blow from stamping.

Today I decided to plug the holes in the main plate then mill the
"T-sots" , I only have one slot cutter and it's for .250" slots so the first job is to reduce the cutter to .190". My end mill grinding adapter on the surface grinder was very helpful for this.
Milling the slots went well except I lost the markings at 0, 90, 180 and 270.. I guess I can live with that.
Then I reground the sub base, the top plate will be reground later.

Claude,

Those T-slots turned out very nice. Your project is coming along nicely. Keep the pictures coming!

Ed

(09-11-2012, 06:24 AM)EdK Wrote: [ -> ]Those T-slots turned out very nice. Your project is coming along nicely. Keep the pictures coming!

I love the "chamfer" on the upper edge of the slots Claude, did you use a countersink for them?
I always (almost) give a touch of the countersink to holes I drill, especially if they are going to be tapped.

(09-11-2012, 07:39 AM)stevec Wrote: [ -> ]I love the "chamfer" on the upper edge of the slots Claude

I also noticed that and was wondering how you accomplished it on the curved portion.

Ed

I don't know what Claude used, but I do a lot of my (45°) chamfering with 90° drill point end mills.

That's what I was thinking he probably did Willie. I figured that is how I would do it and it would even get the rounded part.

Nicely done Claude

DaveH

Just read this thread
First class work
The engraving and numbering are better than many commercial units
John