mounting 3 jaw chuck rotary table factory

You are right about getting the morse taper correct! that has been in my thoughts about this set up! I have thought about it for a while and I think would want to make this as short as I could, also I am not real concerned about getting the morse taper fit really tight just a good snug fit, and have a flange like you do and just drill about 3 holes in that flange for some allen flat heads and drill and tap the rotary table so it can be bolted down and no chance of moving! so basically the tapered hole in the rotary table would be to line up the adapter not really do any holding the flange and the flat head allens would be bolted down to the table! best set up would be just so the tapered shaft morse #2 would fit so the flange could pull it into the taper flush with the rotary table top! would take a bit of fitting to get it just right but can be done! to me that would be the ideal way to get it made, if the morse taper was not so hard to turn you could machine it until it fit just right but it would have to be indiacted in to run true and they are a pain in the @#%[email protected]#% to make with the right angle on the compound! for this set up it would be better if the hole in the rorary table was not tapered it would make the whole job an easy one! but if the table is needed for vertical work the tapered hole is handy!

I might already have my answer. Sounds like I would have to machine an adapter plate to fit between, which I was hoping to avoid. So... it seems like the better option would be to look at rotary tables that have 3/6 slots and mount a chuck with front mounting bolts. That leaves me looking at Yuasa and South Bend rotary tables, with a Gator 6-jaw chuck. Any thoughts on these makes?

I"m machining blackwood and rosewood to make wooden Irish flutes. I"ll be using a small RT in the vertical position with a tailstock. A 4-inch table would work, but I"ve got room on the milling machine for a 6-inch, and Tormach has a 6-inch tailstock that will accept a mt1 bullnose live center. I"ll be machining while turning the RT to mill out wooden blocks for keys. From what I"ve read, seems the RT is the right tool for the job, verses dividing heads, indexers, etc. And the 6-jaw chuck might be obvious at this point, to reduce pressure on the thin wood.

A serialized set of jaws are then finished, ground, and lapped on their designated chuck body which will be the same chuck body on the final assembly to achieve a greater accuracy

Before assembling the jaw to its designated chuck body, the jaw"s finish machining are performed on a closed tolerance state of the art CNC machine from Japan

A serialized set of jaws are then finished, ground, and lapped on their designated chuck body which will be the same chuck body on the final assembly to achieve a greater accuracy

Before assembling the jaw to its designated chuck body, the jaw"s finish machining are performed on a closed tolerance state of the art CNC machine from Japan

This horizontal / vertical rotary table is for indexing, circular cutting, angle setting, boring, and spot facing operations. The cast iron table is precision machined and has a 2 Morse taper center hole. The table is graduated with a 360° scale. A micro collar graduated to one minute with a fifteen second accuracy vernier scale is provided. The rotary table has lock down clamps.

The dividing plate set consists of one plate with two sets of holes. One circle has 15 holes and the other has 28 holes. This lets you divide a circle into 1/3 degree increments, among many other combinations.

The lathe chuck adapter lets you mount a 3" 3- or 4-jaw lathe chuck on a rotary table with a 2 Morse taper center hole. There is an alignment boss that projects into the tapered hole for quick alignment. It is clamped to the rotary table with T-slot nuts that are included.

The reverse rotary table is perfect for using on the tilting angle table. The reverse mount allows access to the handwheel from the front of the machine (see photo below). If you used a standard rotary table in the previously described set-up, the handwheel would be mounted facing the backside of the X-axis.

NOTE: When the worm housing is reversed to the opposite side, a clockwise rotation of the handwheel or stepper motor will result in a counter-clockwise rotation of the rotary table.

The rotary tables can hold more weight when they are not under a continual load. Click on the Video tab above to see examples of different weights and uses for our rotary tables.