Posted by Graham Williams 5 on 27/09/2014 18:05:46:
I purchased a 4" rotary table a couple of years ago from a supplier attending the Midlands show, didn't use it much until this week. Now had a problem with 4 hole centres drilled on it at 90 deg between each, didn't line up with holes in a marked out plate, checked that and plate was OK. Now checked the 2mt centre hole in the RT using DTI and its out of centre by almost 10thou when the table is rotated by the driving handle. Question is, is this adjustable out, if yes how? or is it normal with these foreign mfg tools. Would trying to average out the difference be the only way the RT can be used with useable accuracy?
Anyone have any ideas?
Cheers
GW
'Usable accuracy' is something only you can decide.
I doubt very much whether the MT2 bore can be moved or adjusted relative to the table's main bearing. Its not that unusual though to have to carry out some rework to make (any) product to perform as you want. Bear in mind that you can only make it perform 'as it should' if the item was provided with a specification in the first place.
The first thing to check is how close fitting the table is in its journal, if its OK then I would forger the taper bore and machine it to parallel bore. If you do this on your milling machine with an end mill (say 10mm diameter) using something like a battery drill to rotate the table in it own bore, your new bore will be as concentric with the table as it will ever be.
Ian P