Rotary table ptojects

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Anyone have any neat projects or parts that they made on there rotary table? I am going to be getting a 15" troyke horizontal/vertical rotary table. I have a few projects planned already. I just thought this would be a good thread to show off some of your work and offer suggestions to those starting out.


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Nothing fancy, but here is some of my handy work using a rotary table.

Spacers

I also, made an adapter for the chuck.

Chuck & Indexer.JPG Indexer Adapter 1.JPG Indexer Adapter 2.JPG Indexer Adapter 3.JPG
 
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Nice looking parts Randy. I can't wait to I play with my new table!

sent from my hand held hickymajig
 
Most projects require a multitude of tools to getter done. A rotary table is a tool. And like any other tool, there really is no specific project for a rotary table. It's usually used in conjunction/addition to other machine tools. You can use it to machine radiused slots and, to locate holes that are located by a diameter or radius. It's an XY table that goes around in circles.:lmao:
 
Thank you Brian. So you need not look to hard they are around pages 5 or 6.

"Billy G"
 
Hey RandyM,

Nice work! I'm making a spacer much like yours, so thanks for the mounting idea - I had planned for something far more complicated that I'm more than happy to abandon. I would like to ask if you had a reason not open the center more fully. I had planned to on mine, but maybe I don't want to? I suppose it would be easy enough to fit a plug and have things both ways.

Where I left off the other night:
Rotary Table Spacer.jpg

Thanks,
Ryan

Rotary Table Spacer.jpg
 
Smudgemo said:
Hey RandyM,

Nice work! I'm making a spacer much like yours, so thanks for the mounting idea - I had planned for something far more complicated that I'm more than happy to abandon. I would like to ask if you had a reason not open the center more fully. I had planned to on mine, but maybe I don't want to? I suppose it would be easy enough to fit a plug and have things both ways.

Where I left off the other night:

Thanks,
Ryan
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Well, thank you Ryan. Looks like you have a really good start on yours. Keep us posted.

Actually, I have a center drilled for set up alignment. I bolt the indexer down to the table using a center in the spindle. Now it is all lined up and I am ready to go. This is usually good enough for the type of work I do. So putting a thru hole in it would be detrimental to my practices. Hope this helps.
 
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Got it. I'll be boring as planned since I went the reverse route for alignment and turned the taper off an MT2 drill arbor so it would fit a collet held by the spindle.

Hmmm, can't seem to upload another photo. Anyway, thanks and Go Pack!
 
Here's a little "project" I did for my wife's Christmas present:

crossfish12.JPG

It was mostly done on the mill and you can clearly see where the rotab came in to play. Here are "front" and "side" shots I took during the build to give you a better idea of the concept:

crossfish06.JPG

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I milled it out of a 4" x 4" x 7" block of aluminum and finished up the base on the lathe.

-Ron
 
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