Hi To All

[irving2008]

Well I am building a stepper drive for my rotary table to do the same thing on my mill..

I'd suggest a small motorised 3" rotary table bolted to your x-slide so that the lathe spindle is used to cut. A gear cutter in the spindle and the wheel on an arbor driven by the rotary table would be my approach. You could of course skip the rotary bable and build a directly driven indexing arbor from scratch, it wouldnt be hard to do. You could still use the software/hardware solution in this thread

Thanks for the reply I would like to cut my own wheels so my dilema is either to index the lathe head with a milling spindle on the Schaublin very expensive! I have changed the bearings in the Schaublin head to Ceramic 15 degree AC and they willl do 22k (not that I want to do that rpm) and build as normal on the cross slide or build from scratch using ????

John.

[Clocknut]

Can you recommend a good table? the ones I have seen so far have not been good build quality!

John.

[irving2008]

I bought a Soba 4" from Chronos (the one with 3 Tslots and an MT2 taper in the middle), about £60 in their Xmas offer. It got about 20minutes of backlash but is easy to mount a stepper motor onto... I'll be doing a build log on it soon...