From: muratlanne@gmail.com   
      
   "Bob La Londe"  wrote in message news:v5s30c$jv9f$1@dont-email.me...   
      
   On 6/30/2024 9:30 AM, Jim Wilkins wrote:   
   >>...   
   >Having worked with inexpensive (cheap) rotary tables I have found if I put   
   >gentle tension on the clamp, and only approach each position from eh same   
   >direction of rotation I get pretty good results.  That's a little trickier   
   >when milling radius parts, but not impossible.  You just have to think   
   >about it for a minute.   
   >Bob La Londe   
      
   I thought about that job for hours, while trying other ways to clamp and   
   index the nut plate. I have a Sherline 4-jaw on a 5C mount but the collet   
   keyway isn't quite aligned with a jaw, so the plate came up angled in a hex   
   collet fixture. A B&S-0 indexer with chuck is too tall for my mill when   
   upright. The rotary table takes an MT2 collet, which held the shank of a   
   broken endmill as a locating pin for the drilled plate and the mill spindle.   
      
   The rotary table was missing its clamp lever, for which I had substituted a   
   10-32 screw. Last night I realized I had only been tightening it until the   
   screw hurt my hand, so I sleeved the screw and now tighten it enough to   
   hold.   
      
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