grizzly rotary table made in china

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Hi, im wondering if anyone here has used the grizzly rotary tables and if they hold up to spec? perticularly the http://www.grizzly.com/products/8-Horiz ... Type/G9298 verus a compairable sized phase II rotary table..

Yea I kinda suspected the 4" was utter trash, they don"t even seem to have the dual clampdown method.. looks to be a set thumbscrew? lol and I know from my experiance with swivel vices that if it rotates and doesnt have 2 lockdown clamps, its gonna SUCK. at only $100 its rather dubious too.. but there 8" are a respectable weight, seem to have the proper design features everwhere... $300+... oh well. I think i"ll go with phase II just because I can be assured they are quality and doing rotary table stuff sounds so cool I want quality!

Yea my cross slide drill press vise is made with a void under the fixed jaw.. I kinda assumed it was a place for swaff to go when you closed the jaws all/most of the way. course not very suitable for milling vices where you gotta use parallels to insure accuracy. Also non kurt types will allmost all suffer from jaw lift (except those tookmakers vices that use like a 45 degree screw... and a few other designs...)

Been doing allot reading and searching the forums for info on this subject want to make good decision on what to get for my for PM25-Mv mill. Allot of folks been suggesting the 6" Rotary table for my size Mill some are saying the 8" would be too big . I guess what am i asking would you agree on the 6" for that mill .

Also I am y leaning towards getting the 6" vertex RT as i belive its a better table anyone know where to get the diving plates that would properly function/ fit that table thanks ?

FWIW, I bought a six-inch rotary table a few years ago. As far as I can tell, it was made somewhere in eastern europe. It had some tight spots and a little backlash in the gears, and the scale engraving was crude. I can"t remember what the price was, but I know it was below $400.00. (Including a set of indexing plates.) I wanted a better one, but the budget was needed for other items. For the fraction of my shop time I need a rotary table, I considered the poor quality, low price workable.

I also bought a 4-inch rotary table from Grizzly a while back with the intent of making it indexable via stepper motor and arduino control, but that project did not work out and the table itself is just too hard to use: Another future project to sort out.

A friend brought over his 6 inch dividing head for me to fix that was jammed, Long story short I took it apart the worm gear to the table was stripped. It was made of pot metal , runs off a steel worm on the shaft. My friend said that he paid 273 dollars for it. He told me he was milling brass train wheels with a 3/8 end mill and about 020 cuts. I told him it looks like another manuf change from china to save money on costs. Probly would work for indexing hole but not sturdy for milling work. I think that cheap stuff will always let you down. He is ordering a new part from grizzly , we have a bet that it will cost half as much as the table if they can get it.

I feel for ya. Went through this same issue years ago. They can be pricey lumps of metal for some reason. I"ve read about some OK Chinese stuff & also some horror stories. Its such a crap shoot if you cant see it in person. If it was only clean out casting grit, repack the grease & tweak a bit that would be fine. But if the gears are cut crappy or platen & surfaces are not ground properly then its an irritating boat anchor because difficult to replicate those components. And RT"s are heavy PITA parts to return weight/shipping wise through online vendors sight unseen. Vertex makes pretty good stuff IMO. Just watch out for the tricky label "like Vertex" brands that are creeping in. Dividing plates... useful for sure really depends on what you see yourself making. The only consideration is if you say no now & years later want them, there"s a chance you might not see the correct set, they can have nuances how they mount. Tailstock - again depends on what you are making. Long skinny things in horizontal mode need rotating support just like a lathe but there you could defer or get away with a clone since they are so adjustable. But sometimes the combo kit deals work out to the accessories being not a lot of extra $$, it all depends.

As for the term "hinge", I made that up. The one I am thinking of is still called a rotary table; there are two parts ... the rotary table, and then the base. The two are connected on one side by the hinges (just two tabs with holes, a rod, and the horizontal hole in the base that the rod goes through). The tab parts fit over the edges of the base and the rod slides through the tab holes and the horizontal hole in the base.

Even with a rotary table that is not hinged, you can mount it vertically and in that position you might call it a dividing head because you can usually buy a tailstock for it, and, for certain ones the dividing plates.

Bobs rolling table is, of course, the answer to horsing around a hefty rotary table or dividing head. (Somewhere in internet space there is a design for an elevating multiple shelf version which can successively bring any shelf to the top so that the heavy vice, rotab, dividing head or whatever on that shelf can be slid onto the mill. Gotta be the complete answer. Muggins here lost the bookmark and, so far hasn"t able to come up with a neat replication.)

In practical terms an 8" is generally too small for 12" to the foot work, especially once space lost to clamps is taken into account. Clamp losses are always vastly disproportionate to diameter for smaller tables. A 10" table has around half as much again useful; area as an 8" one whilst a 12" has nearly double. A 10" horizontal vertical is about the largest generally practical size to use vertically on a Bridgeport and tends not to be silly heavy. Its what I have and am well pleased with so possibly I"m biased.

Cost of course is an issue, especially if buying new or having shipped from a distant used dealer. An intermediate sub table is a good way of winning extra space. The 8" Vertex I have about the place will accommodate nearly 14" diameter and still permit the dial to be read, albeit with a bit of peering round the edge. Possibly a use for an old car or small truck flywheel. If the piggy bank will stand the strain the 1/2" solid aluminium breadboards sold by Thor Labs (Thorlabs, Inc. - Your Source for Fiber Optics, Laser Diodes, Optical Instrumentation and Polarization Measurement & Control) and not unaffordable. UK catalogue price for a 12" x 12" which will sit nicely on an 8" rotab is around £110, I imagine the $ price is pro rata. These are decently flat, although not perfect the 6 thou per square foot error quoted is very conservative in my experience, and have a grid of 1/4 UN tapped holes at 1" intervals which are a great help when mounting things and a great curse when de-swarfing! The anodised coating is tough too and well up to shop use.

Well I am looking at investing in some new tools like a lathe, belt disc sander, horizontal band saw, and eventually a milling machine. Does Grizzly make decent tools or is it more china junk? They seem to have a decent selection and fair prices. How is Grizzly to deal with??

I"ve used a few pieces of Grizzly equipment and a lot more Shop Fox items (same company, Grizzly sells direct to customers, Shop Fox sells through distributors/retailers). Overall I"ve been impressed with what you get for the price. There are little things that could have been done better, but so far nothing that isn"t easily changed/corrected as needed. The only mill I"ve used from them is actually a mill/drill, so not quite what you"re looking at, but I will say it"s a good solid unit. I"m actually talking with the owner of it about possibly acquiring it through a trade.

I have called Grizzly a couple times to ask questions and their technical support is very good. The guy I"ve gotten on the phone is Hayes. He"s answered my questions and then some. I placed an order with them yesterday and I"ll let you know how their service is.

As for the quality of the equipment, you almost always get what you pay for. Chinese made tools can be good for a lot of things, but they usually aren"t a match for their American made counterparts. I recently acquired a Chinese made mill (A Lunan machine which Grizzly sells as the G3617) and it seems to be pretty good so far, but it definitely lacks some features I appreciated on the Bridgeports I"ve used in the past. One major flaw in many of the Chinese lathes and mills is that they often use metric lead screws. This is the case with my mill: even though it is marked in thousandths of an inch, a full rotation of the screw doesn"t give the indicated travel due to rounding.

ive got several pieces from grizzly and i wouldnt hesitate to get another. there priced in that grey zone where its a wash between getting a used name brand machine or a new one from them. as said above there service is top drawer, cap went bad on a lathe motor, even though i had it for a while, he sent out replacement no charge.

I"ll say do research on the particular model your looking at... Google should be your best bet. I bought an ATV winch from Grizzly a year ago only to find out it was a great deal because it was a chinese knock off. Wasn"t very pleased with it but I know that the company does make (sell?) good products. I have friends that have them. Just do the research and make sure your getting what want and not what you can afford.

i have a small grizzly mill/drill i use to cut key ways and i like it. it works well, low maintenance. added a good vise to hold my work pieces. would like to add a small rotary table to drill hole patterns and the like.