Gday All.
I've been making a guard for my buff/wire brush grinder by re-purposing an old Scanpan pot over the last few days. (Acquired the grinder with no guards)
Anyway I had need of a rotary table to do that the other day so decided to have a look at the one I have had sitting on the bench for a couple of years. Its 300mm dia and its heavy. I cant lift it.
It was given to me by and old bloke I used to work with who was downsizing. He'd had it for years but hadn't used it.
I haven't used it before and haven't even really had a good look at it since I got it.
I managed to pump a bit of oil into it, and it worked well enough that I could do the job with it but I thought I really should strip it down and clean it as it had a lot of old grease in it.
It has grease nipples in all the lube points so of course sometime in its life its been pumped full of grease. I'll just be using oil once its back together.
Its interesting in that it also has an extra, keyed shaft at the back that engages the pinion shaft via a bevel gear box with selectable forward, neutral and reverse. Obviously made to be able to be used with a powered drive on it.
I stripped it down today and apart from a small bit of damage where the locking bolt has been over tightened its in pretty good internal condition.
However I have not found any brand name or any other info on it either. Hoping to degrease it tomorrow but I don't expect to find anything.
As all the fasteners and sizes are metric on it I'd say its European. Very well made.
Can anyone ID it from the pics?
The ones with the red line show the cracked bit. The first one is looking down from the top where the table itself sits and the second is the same place looking at it from underneath. I think I'll just grind the raised bit under the table back and live with it.
Did I mention that its heavy? lol. Sits nice on my mill though.
I still have to make a handle for it and I have just ordered a set of indexing plates off Ebay which I should be able to make fit it.
Peter
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