troyke 18 rotary table made in china

As mentioned in a previous thread regarding used machinery though, there"s a lot of caveat emptoring in the used machinery business. You may still want to see the thing before you buy it, although I think any reputable place would take it back if you didn"t like it when you got it. Trouble is, shipping charges on 70 pounds of cast iron add up to a lot of money even if you don"t pay for the rotary table.

I own a Sherline 4" rotab and it is quite good. However, it is also somewhat limited in that it does not accept dividing wheels and it does not have a table release; you have to crank it around to get to your next location. It is quite well made, reliable and accurate. It will mount to a milling table as well as a tilting angle table without eating up that much room in Z.

I also own a Japan-made 6" Yuasa that is pretty much fully tooled up. This is a really fine, fully featured rotab that is probably the most cloned rotary table out there. Vertex makes a clone that is quite close. Smooth, accurate and no longer made.

The only other import I have heard of that might meet your needs is the Warco HV-4: https://www.warco.co.uk/rotary-tables-engineering-tools/124-hv4-rotary-table.html. At that price, I"m pretty sure it will be a Warco design but Chinese made. Cannot attest to how good it is but Warco sells some nice small stuff so you might inquire.

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The small part of me that cringes is when something exceptional is facing some degree of destruction. Some things are limited in existing numbers and every one of them that gets altered/destroyed reduces that available quantity regardless of the purpose. I"ve got a 100 year old vise that is still in good condition (now) and several art pieces that are centuries old because someone took care of them. A Troyke ROTAB isn"t an art piece but it"s not too far a stretch to consider it within that realm for a toolmaker.

I"m thinking about picking up a Phase II rotary table for my mill and wonder if I should get the horizontal table or the vertical/horizontal table. Seems to me that the H/V would be more versitile but I don"t want to shoot myself in the foot by making the wrong choice. Which would you choose and why? My mill is a RF-45 clone.

Troyke super precision, heavy-duty manual rotary tables range in size from 10" to 30" in diameter. The Manual Series features a rigid manual rotary table design and can be mounted horizontally or vertically. These precision manual rotary tables are designed to accept dividing attachments, encoders, variable speed drives and a variety of tooling and workholding options.