Special rotary table

[Mitch Alsup]

Does anyone know of a rotary table that can accept DI-5 chucks?

I had this idea yesterday when working on my lathe:: chuck up an item, turn it, face it, remove chuck from lathe, mount chuck on rotary table on mill with work item still chucked-up, drill and tap some holes, remove chuck from rotary table, attach back on lathe for some part finishing work--all in one setup.

 

[Ray C]

I don't know if there's a particular table made to accept a D1-5. FWIW, I've made all kinds of special fixtures to attach stuff to my table and I've mounted various chucks to it for the same reason you suggest. I don't think it would be too hard to make surrogate D-type spindle attachment.

Ray

 

[Shootymacshootface]

I have a 10" RT with a 10" 4 jaw chuck mounted on it. If I needed to put work from my lathe onto my mill I would just put the lathe chuck in the RT chuck.