I ran across an 8" vertex rotary table for a good price ($50), never used, still has the cosmoline on it, extra bits still packed in the plastic bags, etc. But, somebody dropped it. This caused some damage, so I got it as a basket case, which leads me to my questions. First some pictures:
Here's the whole unit:
Here's the damaged part, the cast iron sleeve that the worm shaft runs in. You can see where the casting broke off. I don't have the missing piece:
The shaft itself was also bent, with about 0.035" of runout. I got the shaft straightened out so that it has less than a thou runout, so that's not an issue now. Here is the steel cap that should cover up the cast iron sleeve:
Here it is "installed":
Continued on next post due to photo limitations
doug
Here's the whole unit:
Here's the damaged part, the cast iron sleeve that the worm shaft runs in. You can see where the casting broke off. I don't have the missing piece:
The shaft itself was also bent, with about 0.035" of runout. I got the shaft straightened out so that it has less than a thou runout, so that's not an issue now. Here is the steel cap that should cover up the cast iron sleeve:
Here it is "installed":
Continued on next post due to photo limitations
doug
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