Tooling question for RF-45 clone

[Hopefuldave]

henryarnold Wrote:I bought a 6" Rotary Table that is similar to a Phase II. I've used it for many projects but needed something bigger.
So I added a 14" x 3/4" aluminum plate. The plate is registered by a pin in the middle that fits into the MT hole of the table and bolts to the rotary table's T slots with recessed cap screws.
The plate was machined on the rotary table. I used the rotary table to machine the outside edge and all of the mounting holes. Now I can create any round or arced object up to 7" radius.

Like Henry, I've only a humble 6" table (plus a 4" tilting rotary, not used often but handy when nothing else will do!), but instead of an ally plate I've got a 12" faceplate that locates on a MT2 to 2" spigot (to fit the plate's centre hole) and bolts into the Tee slots through its centre boss - it was free from the scrap bin, the D1-4 internal taper was cut at very much the wrong angle and size! More like a D1-4.075, really... Being free and only hitting a max' of about 2 RPM with mad cranking of the handle, I'm happy to drill the odd hole here and there if the faceplate slots won't fit the work... I didn't want to go any bigger than the 6", as at the mo' all my milling (at home) is done on the lathe, any bigger and I wouldn't be able to get lathe and table centres to align if I wanted to, or get the tool above the table surface...

Dave H. (the other one)