The first part, who I want to present is my self made mounting plate for my rotary table. I start with a rectangular steel plate. First I had to cut off the edges, because the milling needs more time than the cutting. I cut this with a angle grinder, the abrasive wheel has a diameter of 230mm. This was a realy hot work This pictures shows the angle grinder, who I use. The next one shows the plate after the cutting. and the abrasive wheel after the cutting, it becomes a little bit smaller than before. The bigger part of the machining was to turn it and to mill it. First I drilled some holes in the plate to mount it on the lathe and the rotary table. Then I turned one surface to get it smooth. That was realy hard to turn it, the steel turnings become a nice blue shining. Than i drilled the drill for the centering bold of the rotary table. I need a few houres to mill the plate, the next few pictures will show it. The final picture shows the mounting plate in use.
Yes, what he said! (Welcome to Bittech THP Dan!) This is very cool! What did you use to lubricate the bits and stock during milling? I want more pictures! Are the hold downs on the table made by you as well?
Thanks, the diameter of the mounting plate is 198mm and the rotary table has a diameter of 150mm. I want to make a bigger one, I hope to get a round pice of stell with a diameter of 300 up to 340mm. I used different lubrication during the processing. First I used old oil from a sewing machine, than I tried rapesse oil for the lubrivation, because that is much cheaper than the other oil. And I used a special drill oil for the center hole. At the moment I make some test with the rapessed oil, because I don't want that the machine get some corrosion. Some of teh chips get corroded until now. The down holder aren't build by myself, I bought it with the milling machine. Perhaps in the future I will build some special but not yet. This are all pictures who I made from this plate. The next part, which I build, I can make more pictures.
