Tilting Table Kit?

I'm unhappy with the various Chinese tilting tables being sold and I would like to machine my own. I seem to remember at one time someone sold castings for these. Does anyone remember these kits and are they still available?

Thanks,

Ed P

Hemmingway?

My castings came from College Engineering Supply. The parts were still on their website the last time I looked.

Michael

CES lists Tilting Angle Plates **LINK**

... is that what you have? or do/did they list anything with a large bearing?

[more like this style]

MichaelG.

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 22/04/2016 08:40:58

I guess one approach is to buy a Chinese one and treat it as a casting kit?

Another option is the 6 1/2" x 4" Sine table by Dave Lammas, solid bit of kit. Castings available from Blackgates at

**LINK**

Emgee

Edited By Emgee on 22/04/2016 09:24:01

This one came as a kit from Model Engineering Services - the same people who sold the Quorn castings. MES are sadly now defunct, I don't know if anybody has taken over the patterns, it's a very solid piece of kit..

And, yes, items do sometimes slip when machining - as evidenced by that slot

HTH (but not much)

Rod

I have only rarely needed a tilting table and Icould not justify the expense of a purposed made unit. However, I had a tilting vice and I made a small tee slot table that clamped in the vice, see:

http://mikesworkshop.weebly.com/tilting-table.html

Mike

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Thanks for posting that, Rod ... It saves me wondering where I had seen it.

Sad loss, M.E.S.

MichaelG.

John Haine has it right. It sometimes takes longer to rework something over making new depending on the errors and what is required to be able to rework it. I assume that since you are after a kit, have the capacity to rework the one you have. The advantage of reworking stuff, is you will know where and how much the errors are. Then you can decide if it is acceptable or not.

Neil

I think Ivan and Mike Law still have the patterns for the MES products, but I don't think they are planning on going back into production.

Neil

Neil

I'm looking for the one shown in your second link. I've found a supplier of a Chinese 5"x7" over here in the States for just $58.00. At that price I'll take a chance that I can treat it like a kit and make something useful out of it!

Thanks for everyone's comments.

Ed P

Ed,

Since you've decided to go down the reworking route, it might be helpful for you to have a look at Stefan Gotteswinter's YouTube feed. He's just uploaded a video showing how he has approached this very procedure. Only part one, so far, but interesting nevertheless. His other projects are an easy way to lose a few hours as well! Just search for his name on YouTube and you'll find it.

John

P.S. For scraping aficionados, he uses a power tool to take the hard graft out of scraping the base flat!

I have castings for a swivelling/tilting table. Patterns made by my Sisters Partner and I got two sets cast, I will start machining in the next week or so. I will cheat and go into where I used to work and surface grind the faces.

I have the 559 castings from CES so not as robust as the one shown in your second link. I wasn't too bothered about a scale as I plan on measuring the angle each time it is set and clamped.

Edited By Michael Checkley on 26/04/2016 10:05:57

Seconded. As he says, he couldn't have bought the materials to make his own for the price of the one he got. His workmanship is first rate on all his projects.

Incidentally. for a cheap power scraper there are electric power chisels available - I have a Bosch one (now discontinued I think), they might work as a scraper for cast iron with the right blade.

Hope this has some relevance, This is a tilting table I made a few years back. Although its from scratch and not a kit. It is all Meehanite, except the threaded pivots and their nuts [EN24t] and the threaded inserts [EN24T @ M8] I decided to have a go at hand scraping the plate surface after it was milled, although it took 2 days I feel it was worth it as it is flat to within 0.005mm anywhere. The scraping was actually quite enjoyable but not something I would want to do full time !! It tilts 95deg either side of horizontal and as you would expect from something that weighs in at a shade over 68kg's VERY rigid. The pivots pins are 24mm Ø threaded 1.25mm pitch [ EN 24T] and are 1 left hand thread and 1 right hand thread. The inserts are 25mm ctc and are also EN24T they have a flange on the rear and when they were all pulled home tight sit approx 0.25mm below the surface. It doesn't ever move from where it is set regardless of how heavy a cut is taken. Were I to make another one, I would design in a tilting mechanism as you must ensure you have a good hold of it when you loosen the pivot nuts!! If not, then you will have around about 35kg's of Meehanite plate either tilting away from you or toward you [and you don't want any digits between the table and the milling machine bed ] if you don't have control over it, or else its a trip to the KRANKENHAUS !! This genuine Meehanite is a sheer joy to machine and work with, although very dirty. Hope this has been of interest.

Cheers.

I have made the CES tilting angle plate but as is almost always the case with commercial angle plates, fixed and tilting, the provision for securing workpieces on it was limited. three slots in this case. Fortunately, the casting was very substantial and thick enough to include tee slots. So in addition to the three vertical slots I added three horizontal tee slots.

See my efforts here here

Harold

Here is the tilting table that I use on an elliott U2 mill, it is 6"x 8" and has 3 T slots, I like the T slots better than plain slots, it is quite old but is in nice condition.

Richard.

Edit, the threaded inserts are on 30mm ctc.not 25mm. also table thickness after milling and scraping 30.68mm.