Cross slide rotary table

[OldMachinist]

Here's my latest acquisition that I really couldn't pass up at $175 plus a tank of gas.
Advance Products Corp. A-11 cross slide rotary table. Heavy USA made iron.



I've already been asked by the little woman what I need it for and I said I don't but I might someday.:secrethandshake:

 

[jam]

nice find

 

[Walsheng]

I am going to go all "back in the day" on you.
Building injection molds in a small shop back in the 70's, before we could afford CNC (or NC for that matter), we used those all the time. It was called profiling and you would be amazed on what we could do. We built molds for camera parts for Polaroid, computer keyboard parts for people like Digital and Wang. Boy, talk about a list of dead companies!
There is quite a bit you can accomplish, just use your imagination.

John

 

[kd4gij]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY2WIFGQttE

try this.

 

[george wilson]

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[OldMachinist]

I am going to go all "back in the day" on you.
Building injection molds in a small shop back in the 70's, before we could afford CNC (or NC for that matter), we used those all the time. It was called profiling and you would be amazed on what we could do. We built molds for camera parts for Polaroid, computer keyboard parts for people like Digital and Wang. Boy, talk about a list of dead companies!
There is quite a bit you can accomplish, just use your imagination.

John

Oh I'm very familiar with what can be done on one as I also started out in this trade before CNC. I just don't have anything right now that I need it for.
I tried to talk myself out of buying it for a week and hoped that someone that needed it would but it just sat there saying buy me before a scrapper gets me.

 

[Senna]

You did very very well at $175.
I've had three different CSRT's but never an Advance.
The Palmgren just isn't in this league but the Troyke units are very nice indeed.
Very similar to the Advance.

As for need, it's just another RT until you need that cross slide motion.

 

[OldMachinist]

Yes just another rotary table to go on the shelf with the 12" Yuasa rotary that has a digital read out.

 

[Senna]

Yes just another rotary table to go on the shelf with the 12" Yuasa rotary that has a digital read out.

That is one very nice Yausa RT there! Haven't seen one like that before.
At $175 though you really couldn't, in good conscience, pass up the Advance.

 

[Marco Bernardini]

IMHO the sliding table over the rotating table offers a lot more flexibility than a plain RT: actually you add another 2 axes to your machine (I don't know which letters they could get :biggrin, and you'll save clamping time for working on off-center parts.