Homemade Rotary Table

**Astro** · Jun 13, 2015, 06:01 AM

Hi Ken, received my T-shirt, great quality, thanks so much.

**Hotz** · Jun 13, 2015, 09:13 AM

Hi Astro great Job .. congratulation ..

**kbalch** · Jun 15, 2015, 02:19 PM

Originally Posted by Astro

Hi Ken, received my T-shirt, great quality, thanks so much.

Excellent - glad to hear it!

How about a photo of the shirt "in the wild"?

Ken

**Astro** · Jul 10, 2015, 04:15 AM

Well it's been a while since I last posted, but here is a couple of photos of the Homemade Tools T-shirt "in the wild" in rural Australia. Sorry about the quality of the model but, you have to work with what you have. This bike was displayed at a local RV & camping show. It is fully functional with a four cylinder car engine for power.

**kbalch** · Jul 10, 2015, 01:23 PM

Fantastic!! Love the bike, but I couldn't squeeze it into the garage!

Also great to see our shirt out and about.

Ken

**EclecticNeophyte** · Aug 1, 2015, 05:30 PM

Great work Astro. I picked up a couple of reduction drives (40:1) recently at the scrap yard, with the same thing in mind...

-EN

**Paul Jones** · Aug 30, 2016, 09:18 AM

Astro,

This is a great project and can be scaled to almost any size depending on the right angle drive wormbox with reduction gears. I am currently looking for something really small for micro-machining to fit a 2" to 3" diameter faceplate. You have lots of great ideas I want to incorporate into the smaller version.

Thank you for all the photos and steps of construction,

Paul

**Astro** · Aug 31, 2016, 03:32 AM

Thanks Paul for you kind words. I didn't think that this build would be that popular. It seems that it was of interest to quite a few people. I have a new cad program I am trialling so I will try to describe the locking mechanism I made as I don't think the pictures showed it well. Do you have a cad program on which you could view a 3d model? If not I'll see if I can sort out some other way of showing you the detail.
Pete.

**Paul Jones** · Aug 31, 2016, 11:09 AM

Pete,
Yes, I use TurboCAD and it can view just about any of the typical CAD formats. One of the machining operations I want to try on the rotary table is milling rounded ends on stationary steam engine linkage parts. There is a clever way to do this safely without a rotary table (and I think it was Randy Richard on YouTube who demonstrated the technique on his Bridgeport) but the rotary table would be universal for different sized radii rather than using a jig.
Tanks Paul

**mklotz** · Aug 31, 2016, 11:39 AM

Originally Posted by Paul Jones

Pete,
Yes, I use TurboCAD and it can view just about any of the typical CAD formats. One of the machining operations I want to try on the rotary table is milling rounded ends on stationary steam engine linkage parts. There is a clever way to do this safely without a rotary table (and I think it was Randy Richard on YouTube who demonstrated the technique on his Bridgeport) but the rotary table would be universal for different sized radii rather than using a jig.
Tanks Paul

Sometimes you can't escape the rotary table for rounding over jobs but, in many cases, a somewhat simpler arrangement for linkage rounding will do the job very easily. Here's my take on such a device...

http://www.homemadetools.net/forum/r...ll-parts-27242