Milling project

[BaronJ]

I’ve got a 6” Homge brand horizontal/vertical with index plates. Looks the same as the Vertex and others.
Have cut a few change gears, seems to work fine. It does have a little bit of backlash etc that I haven’t bothered messing with, so when cutting gears I always lock the table locks for each cut.
Mine won’t take a full length MT2 arbor so I turned up a short one.
It’s a good exercise to turn one up, and not that big a deal.

Steve

Hi Steve,

Mine won't take a full length MT2 taper either ! In fact it only drops in about 40 mm or so. I did consider running a reamer down and opening it out a little but decided against it simply because it would have reduced or removed the clamping surface used to retain the taper in the bore.

[simonl]

Hi there,

I have a vertex HV8 8" rotary table. Having the extra table size makes things easier BUT they are very heavy too.

Mostly happy with the quality considering the work I do.

Mine has 3 T slots which bugs me no end. I would prefer 4! In fact if I was to choose again I would look for a brand with 4 T slots.

Simon

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[Michael G]

Mine has 3 T slots which bugs me no end. I would prefer 4! In fact if I was to choose again I would look for a brand with 4 T slots.

Yuasa, although you may have to import from the US.

Michael