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I bought a mill and lathe and whole bunch of tooling from the widow of my good friend recently. I sincerely wish I could ask him about this, but although I talk to him all the time he's not answering much any more.
I want to call this thing a rotary table, but from my google searches the rotary table is actually quite a different thing. It appears that both ends of this device are made to work together how I have it set up on the mill, but when I went to put it all together the right hand end is actually slightly lower than the left hand end, so I'm going to need to shim the right hand end up about 0.200" or so to level the work. But this has me thinking that maybe I misunderstood, and the two ends are designed to be used independently.
Any idea what this is called and how it's meant to be used? Both ends use 5C collets to hold the work. The right end has a lever that lets you quickly tighten and loosen the collet, and the left end has a vernier dial marked with degrees and a handle to both tighten the collet and to rotate the work.
I want to call this thing a rotary table, but from my google searches the rotary table is actually quite a different thing. It appears that both ends of this device are made to work together how I have it set up on the mill, but when I went to put it all together the right hand end is actually slightly lower than the left hand end, so I'm going to need to shim the right hand end up about 0.200" or so to level the work. But this has me thinking that maybe I misunderstood, and the two ends are designed to be used independently.
Any idea what this is called and how it's meant to be used? Both ends use 5C collets to hold the work. The right end has a lever that lets you quickly tighten and loosen the collet, and the left end has a vernier dial marked with degrees and a handle to both tighten the collet and to rotate the work.