So what can I do with this ... 5-Axis.

[Jonathan]

Difficult to say until you try
I have HV6 from WARCO and it looks like for me Jonathan have the same one :), /or all them can be generic ones with different names.

The Axminster one looks exactly like the one Chip got with a different label. The giveaway is it seems the vertex ones have thin fine lines for the markings and a bigger dial with vernier scale whereas the others have thicker more wobbly lines...the HV6 on the warco site (http://www.warco.co.uk/rotary--compo...ry-tables.html) says SOBA on it, and also has 4 slots whereas the vast majority of vertex have 3 slots.
Whether it matters or not depends on what you're using it for.

Anyway I don't complain about mine so far. I just come back from the garage after exercising dividing plates, (46 tooth timing pulleys- 1 full turn and 22 holes@23 holes dividing plate, enough to make my hand sore :whistling:

That's why I almost immediately after getting mine put a stepper motor on it. Gets tedious fast doing pulleys manually. I did one 16T that way...

http://www.youtube.com/user/Jonbliss.../8/lVuBEEceWJ4

[wiatroda]

That's why I, almost immediately after getting mine, put a stepper motor on it. Gets tedious fast doing pulleys manually. I did one 16T that way...

Agree, stepper would greatly ease and speed up a job.
It's not cranking itself , but pulling back handle to unlock is painful as the spring is really strong- too strong.
My rotary has 4 slots and fits nicely to four mounting holes in a chuck
How about programming rotary table- looks like hand written G-code for me.
What about making some macro with some loop working until machine cut desired amount of tooth???? some no. of tooth variable in a macro??

[Jonathan]

It's not cranking itself , but pulling back handle to unlock is painful as the spring is really strong- too strong.

I didn't use a dividing plate, never really seen the point when the rotary table has a scale which just move to the right angle.

What about making some macro with some loop working until machine cut desired amount of tooth???? some no. of tooth variable in a macro??

If you use EMC you can do it in just a few lines of code as, unlike mach3, it supports loops. I just wrote a quick program to write the code for pulleys:

http://www.mycncuk.com/forums/showth...ating-programs

The main reason I did that program was for milling XL pulleys using just a normal endmill, but you can use it with a form tool too.

[Jonathan]

Double post, deleted.