Thrift Store Rotary Table

[foleda]

A few months ago, before I even had a mill, I was browsing a second hand store and spotted something under a pile of worn out screwdrivers and cordless drills without batteries that looked interesting. It turned out to be a 9 inch Troyke rotary table. It looked to be in pretty rough shape but the price was right so I lugged it's not inconsiderable weight to the front of the store to check out. The proprietor looked at it dubiously and advised me "All sales are final, no returns."

It finally rose to the top of my to-do list. Here is the starting point



It took me a while to get it appart. I thought for a while that the worm shaft was completely frozen in place. Turned out that the chain drive on the worm shaft had tightened the collar to the point that the shaft was completely imobile.

The internals were well oiled and in good shape.

After some Evaporust and a little paint it is looking much better.

I have a small handwheel I can bore out to fit the shaft and I still have to make a graduated collar to align with the existing vernier. I plan to bootstrap that, using the table to machine it's own graduations. 240 divisions with a 90:1 worm works out to 3/8's of a rotation per division so I only have to gin up a 8 hole dividing plate.

Oh, and the cost $10.

 

[ch2co]

Boo, Hiss, NO FAIR! Beautiful job of restoration, just wish it coulda' been me that found it.

CHuck the grumpy old guy

 

[alloy]

Ok, you deserve an official

Great score and nice job on the rebuild.

 

[RJSakowski]

It is great to see an old and neglected piece of machinery returned to a useful life.

 

[kd4gij]

Nice score. Good job on the restore. I have a 9" troyke I picked up from a fellow worker for $40.00. The manual is on line some where, I have it on my old laptop, just need to find it. Oh ya

 

[jpfabricator]

The vacuum is strong with this one!

sent from somewhere in East Texas!

 

[Uglydog]

Another save!!

Daryl
MN

 

[foleda]

Nice score. Good job on the restore. I have a 9" troyke I picked up from a fellow worker for $40.00. The manual is on line some where, I have it on my old laptop, just need to find it. Oh ya

Thanks. At the time I was thinking that I would never make a "suck worthy" find but one day my number came up. The
"secret" is to just visit a lot of thrift stores, pawn shops and estate sales. My wife was a thrift store junkie so I have spent countless hours in them.

I was able to find a couple of drawings online but no manual. If you can find your copy I'd be interested.

 

[hman]

Good grief almighty!!!! Not only did you do good, but you also did well!

PS - I think I may be hanging around the wrong kind of thrift store ...

 

[Ulma Doctor]

Dave, not only do you suck-
you rub it into our faces and publicly humiliate us all with your good fortune.

touche!