Tilting vs swivel angle plates?

[Saxguy]

... a 10" one here (like Joes) is around $650

 

[Saxguy]

I did scrape the top and bottom of mine also. Not that it was unusable when I bought it but I was trying to learn how to scrape and it was an easy victim.
Joe

That scraping job looks fantastic Joe. I really need to have a go at that. Would love to take a course.

 

[mikey]

Yuasa makes some really good ones. Expensive, though.

 

[Winegrower]

I have the “rotates over a hump” kind, about 7”x 12” table. It’s extremely solid for machining and sets up very quickly and accurately with a sine bar and indicator. The engraved scale is dead on if that’s accurate enough. A common use is making long V grooves in parts.

Edit: Here’s a picture, it’s bigger than I thought…maybe 9”x 12 or so.

 

[C-Bag]

... a 10" one here (like Joes) is around $650

You can’t order from Alibaba? I think I paid less than $150 new for mine.

 

[Manual Mac]

This is the 7”x 5” tilting table I bought a year or 2 ago For a project.
I Made T nuts for it & tooling so I could mount my 6” rotary table on it.
everything worked out fine, but then I shelved the project.
i remember I was going to report back to mikey on the accuracy of it (sorry about that mikey) & never did.
I found it very accurate in every way for my hobby use, only thing I found was the T nut slots were a slightly different depth from each other, but that really does not matter for the set ups, it’s just holding objects to the flat of the table.
Certainly not Yuasa quality, but I only pad about 80 bucks for it From CME (no affiliatio).
as always, YMMV

 

[Saxguy]

This is the 7”x 5” tilting table I bought a year or 2 ago For a project.
I Made T nuts for it & tooling so I could mount my 6” rotary table on it.
everything worked out fine, but then I shelved the project.
i remember I was going to report back to mikey on the accuracy of it (sorry about that mikey) & never did.
I found it very accurate in every way for my hobby use, only thing I found was the T nut slots were a slightly different depth from each other, but that really does not matter for the set ups, it’s just holding objects to the flat of the table.
Certainly not Yuasa quality, but I only pad about 80 bucks for it From CME (no affiliatio).
as always, YMMV

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These are our local prices (trade), which are all then subject to +15% tax
These are a reasonable make too (Taiwanese)

 

[Saxguy]

I have the “rotates over a hump” kind, about 7”x 12” table. It’s extremely solid for machining and sets up very quickly and accurately with a sine bar and indicator. The engraved scale is dead on if that’s accurate enough. A common use is making long V grooves in parts.

Edit: Here’s a picture, it’s bigger than I thought…maybe 9”x 12 or so.

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Wow.... thats a lovely beast.

 

[mikey]

What would you guys say are the advantages or disadvantages of the various types.

I own this one. Well, not that one but one like it and in much better condition. This type of table has two large gibs that keep the angle of the table square and allow the table to be locked solidly when the desired angle is set. It also has an indexed rotating base so compound angles can be cut. It has a -30 to +90 deg tilting range. The table on this one is only 6X8" but it is enough for a small vise or a tooling plate for larger work.

I looked at every tilting table on the market and found this to be the best design. Yuasa made a larger model, I think, but I would hate to think what it would cost.

 

[C-Bag]

I own this one. Well, not that one but one like it and in much better condition. This type of table has two large gibs that keep the angle of the table square and allow the table to be locked solidly when the desired angle is set. It also has an indexed rotating base so compound angles can be cut. It has a -30 to +90 deg tilting range. The table on this one is only 6X8" but it is enough for a small vise or a tooling plate for larger work.

I looked at every tilting table on the market and found this to be the best design. Yuasa made a larger model, I think, but I would hate to think what it would cost.

Very cool Mike! Never seen one like that. From my experience with mine that is just the hump type boy howdy does that thing eat up some Z so yours would be even more of a challenge if I grok how big it is. The other challenge for me was finding room to mount up the piece then have enough real estate left to put clamps.