10-22-2015, 02:39 AM
In the un-ending quest for more and more hardware, I have been looking out for a rotary table for my mill. I have come across one that looks like an okay thing and the guy seems prepared to deal on it, it's about 2 1/2 hours drive each way to pick it up but that's no biggie, I'm just wondering if perhaps it might be a bit too big for my Victoria (Elliott) U2 horizontal.
The rotary table in question is a 400mm (14") unit that weighs about 120kg (somewhere around 250 pounds). The table on my mill is 300mm (12") wide. Given that the vertical attachment on the U2 does not have a quill, all Z-axis movement is done from the knee; this being the case, I'm also wondering whether this would be unreasonably heavy to crank up and down.
Being a rank novice to all this stuff, and never having actually used a rotary table, I'd be keen to hear the collective forum wisdom on this one.
The rotary table in question is a 400mm (14") unit that weighs about 120kg (somewhere around 250 pounds). The table on my mill is 300mm (12") wide. Given that the vertical attachment on the U2 does not have a quill, all Z-axis movement is done from the knee; this being the case, I'm also wondering whether this would be unreasonably heavy to crank up and down.
Being a rank novice to all this stuff, and never having actually used a rotary table, I'd be keen to hear the collective forum wisdom on this one.
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