4'' shop made rotary table

[James Puckett]

Fantastic wip I am amazed might be a little ambitious for me I'm just starting out but I will make one.

 

[CNCMAN]

very cool.

 

[Ulma Doctor]

nice job. you do excellent work!!
:worship:

 

[sped35]

Very well done!! I am jealous!

 

[Bishop]

Very nice work, the white dial and black etching is fantastic.

Shawn

 

[smallfly]

Re: 4'' shop made rotary table (with prints)

Alright, i recently acquired a Sherline mill and thought it would be fun to make a rotary table for it. I got quite a lot of inspiration from this gentleman and his web site http://www.deansphotographica.com/machining/projects/mill/rotary/rotary1.html This guy did a vary good job of explaining the whole process, from machining to assembly. so i wont bother with a lot of details about the project unless someone has a question. And i kind of rushed through the blueprints, so if im missing some important dimensions let me know.

Ill start with a parts list of the things i didn't make.
- Ball Bearing - Flanged (1/4" Bore, 1/2" OD) https://www.sparkfun.com/products/12611



- Timken Set2 ( LM11949 & LM11910) http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0071B0Y48/ref=oh_details_o04_s01_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1



- Gear: (A 1B 6-N32060A) https://sdp-si.com/eStore/Catalog
- Worm: (A 1 C55-55N32)




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The dial is zero adjustable, just loosen the shcs and the white dial spins then just snug it up with your fingers and its locked in place again. i just wrote the numbers on with a sharpie (not in picture) until i feel the need to try to stamp them in. Also i wanted to say i made the worm handle assembly separate from the body so i could move it toward or away from the worm gear, to adjust backlash; Right now there is nearly zero backlash.


Here are the prints.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3IrEv9iYhGKdFBCSm51MmdtaW8/edit?usp=sharing

you really really do some very nice work. that R.T. is beautiful !

re steve in mt.

 

[george wilson]

I agree. A great job,and no doubt superior to a purchased table unless it was of top grade quality.

 

[melsdad]

Great piece of work! You should get many years of use out of it.

 

[markknx]

Nice work!

 

[Tim9]

Just looking over some older posts of tooling and ran across this. I too really like Dean's Photo website of his machining projects. He's now retired but still has his projects posted. He has some really great stuff and there's no telling how much longer he will keep the website there. That said, one can download the prints and projects still and I highly recommend checking his stuff out. It is all first class IMO.
http://www.deansphotographica.com/machining/projects/projects.html