Unboxing the cheapest adjustable angle plate on Amazon
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
- Taking a look at a cheap angle plate to see if it is good enough for my uses on my mini milling machine.
BestEquip Tilting Milling Table - amzn.to/3tJVQyv
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I find mine extremely useful for cylinder head work on british twins and triples, good to have. All the best, Ade
Hello Ade,
Thanks for watching, it was actually while watching your Norton broken spark plug removal video that I saw how useful it is for that job and went ahead and ordered one. Needs a bit of work but it is going to make the set up much easier.
All the best!
Eddie
All tilting tables I’ve ever used have handles that are too long to clear the bottom. That’s the way they’re designed, or, with a heavy part on top, you wouldn’t have the leverage to turn it. So you remove the handle to position it when turning it. It’s inconvenient, but so is machining overall. I’m always amazed at how much you get with really cheap tooling from China and now, India. 50 years ago, if you bought a tilting table at the cost this would have been back then, made in the USA, it would have been made from thick sheet metal and pretty much total junk.
When we were younger our toys often came as "some assembly required " now that we are older our toys are "some machining required " lol...definitely a handy device
You are certainly not kidding about that. Even the bathroom cabinet I just put together for my wife, I had to shave the inset back with the bandsaw to get it to fit right. lol.
Thanks for the many enjoyable videos you have made, keep up the good work!
I put one of those tables on my drill press. I put the screw, handle and their bearings into the dust bin. I snug up the clamp bolts, tap the table to the correct angle. And tighten the clamp bolts. Works fast and simple.
Thank you! I did basically the same thing.
Thanks, you answered a lot of questions. As Stefan Gotteswinter says, Import tools are kits!
Thanks! I would never argue machining with Stefan😁
I bought two of these for work (minus the worm gear adjuster) from Grizzly. Same issues with wobble and T-nuts. I made a steel mounting plate to join them together in tandem to make a longer table and for the specific job I bought them for they work fine. The parts I make with them are not very critical. After mounting to the top plate I flipped them and skimmed the feet so they sit flat. I only tighten the locking nuts on the outside ends and I use a digital angle block for adjustment like you do because the scale is out a degree or two. Altogether the unit weighs 125 pounds! I keyed the bottom to make installation easier and drilled and tapped the edge of the top plate for a handle so I can control it when making adjustments.
Nice, sounds like a good mod for a bigger job. Don't even want to know what an angle that size made domestically would cost, lol. Thanks,
Eddie
The screw is only there to stop the thing falling over as you adjust. Since your unlikely to have anything too heavy on the table, you may as well just lose the screw and mounts.
Good point. grind those bosses off and you would get full adjustment without propping it up.
I would rather raise it a bit. It’s about what I would expect. You could grind out part of the bottom of the boss, but don’t remove the screw. Believe me, there will be a time if you do, when you will regret it when you smash your finger when it drops down.
I just bought one of these to use on my Smithy also. It is out of the box and sitting on the bench, so far I haven't had time to go through it. Mine doesn't have the gear drive though.
The first thing I thought of is what Bill Todd did, take the screw drive mechanism off.
It looks to be fairly useless anyway.
I would like to see you do another video about this thing after you get it sorted.
Best of luck on your spark plug hole project too.
Hello,
It will show up again with the cylinder head in the next few weeks. I have another little job I have to get to first. All the best!
Eddie
One way to get it to sit flat and true on your table would be to zero out the scale on the fixture, turn the table upside down and mounted it to your mill.
Then mill the "feet" on the table true.
Great idea. The only caveat is if you re-tram your table, you will need to do it again and it will also need to be used in the same orientation every time. But yeah that would square it to the machine and be closer than it is out of the box for the purpose.
Thanks,
Eddie
Excellent review. I had one of these sitting in my Amazon cart. Might still buy it, but it'll definitely take a lot of rework to turn it into a decent tool. I don't know what I expected for the money.
Thanks. It definitely needs work but about anything not expensive does these days. It will get used for sure. Best!
Hello Eddie,
Especially interest as I have been looking at one of these tables... it is more basic than your one as it does not have the worm gear to adjust. Thanks for sharing...
Cheers.
Paul,,
I am going to take the gear off, it is not worth the trouble and gets in the way more than anything. I realized last night that the bosses just bolt on an each side so removing it should not be a problem.
Best!
Eddie
I think I bought a 5x7 it does not have the worm no handle probably should do away with that take it apart Mill it off whatever you need to do then you can just bump it into place they seem to work okay good luck
Thanks, the couple times I have used it I did not use the adjustment screw or handle. I don't think I even know where the handle is at this point, lol.
I want this 10×15
Not cheap - amzn.to/2Y8Ut24
I'm sure you'll get your money's worth out of it over time. When you can angle work, you'll start thinking in angled work.
Angling for a heart emoji are you?
@@theeddies Yeah. I live for them.
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@@johnstrange6799 hmmmmm atlanta.craigslist.org/wat/tls/d/douglasville-south-bend-heavy-n-lathe/7298183111.html
@@theeddies Interested, or no? Seems a little pricey, but it does have a steady and follow rest. You could possibly find a 10" or 13" in more or less roughly the same price range, but will be more of a pain to move.
Well it looks like its worth 50 quid :-)
I thought about making one but with the cost of material and time, much better to just modify this. Thanks for watching Bill.