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Got the little rotary table tuned up enough to actually do something. This is the one I bought a few weeks ago and right out of the gate I knew I was going to have to put some time into it.
I had intended to put together a more thorough play-by-play of what I did but it was starting to feel like a bit of a reach and wasn’t really that captivating. Most of it was just deburring and getting better fits on the parts, so this abridged version will have to suffice.
I stripped off all the ugly paint, cleaned up the dials, inked in the graduations so I could see them, and massaged as much lash as I could out of the worm assembly.
The casting itself was not too bad but I did clean up three of the edge faces on the shaper to get better fit for the dials as well as more consistent reference edges.
Probably the most fun was making new furniture for clamping the table and indicating the degree markings.
Nothing I did miraculously changed it into a super-smooth, ultra-precision tool, but it did make it a lot more pleasing to use. And in the process you always learn a whole bunch about how the thing works or is supposed to work, so there’s value just for that.
Thanks for looking!
-frank
I had intended to put together a more thorough play-by-play of what I did but it was starting to feel like a bit of a reach and wasn’t really that captivating. Most of it was just deburring and getting better fits on the parts, so this abridged version will have to suffice.
I stripped off all the ugly paint, cleaned up the dials, inked in the graduations so I could see them, and massaged as much lash as I could out of the worm assembly.
The casting itself was not too bad but I did clean up three of the edge faces on the shaper to get better fit for the dials as well as more consistent reference edges.
Probably the most fun was making new furniture for clamping the table and indicating the degree markings.
Nothing I did miraculously changed it into a super-smooth, ultra-precision tool, but it did make it a lot more pleasing to use. And in the process you always learn a whole bunch about how the thing works or is supposed to work, so there’s value just for that.
Thanks for looking!
-frank