Gloat?

It's definitely a gloat if you've got a mill big enough to use it on. I got a P&W 10" tilting rotary table in great shape for $300 and at about

200#+ it's about the largest thing I'd want to put on my 1J Bridgeport.

Pete C.

Way, way cool. The only negatives will be handling the damned thing, and the odd chance that the top slides will diminish useful spindle depth. You did good!

Harold

You did very well.

I got a fairly new one off eBay a couple of years ago for $600. It is a newer model than yours but is basically the same (still called DMT-15). At more than 300 lbs I would not have even considered it due to shipping costs but, like yours, it was local. Here is one identical to mine selling for $2,950.00 at Astra Tool.

They are hard to handle until you can figure out the best way to set them on your table (minimum of Bridgeport 2J). Depending on the machine (i.e., access to the table), I sometimes use my hydraulic table, electric hoist or cherry picker (engine hoist) to lift and set mine on the machine table. Once you get the process down, moving it and setting it on the table is not a problem. I have several smaller variations of this rotary table but they all are reversed in their functionality. The cross-slide is on the bottom and the rotary table is on top. Those tables provide no more functionality than setting a regular rotary table on top of a Bridgeport table. This does not provide near as much functionality as the DMT-15 arrangement.

Indexing (dividing) kits are available for the DMT-15 and other Troyke rotary tables. I found one on eBay right after purchasing my DMT-15. It was a Buy It Now auction for $35 and it included two double-sided plates, the handle, knuckle, bearings, spacers and extra nut. I don't know what the retail price is for the kit. It also fits my Troyke 15 inch H/V rotary table (model U-15). These kits add even more functionality to already extremely useful tools.

You will find the DMT-15 to be a very useful tool in your shop. I don't think that you'll regret your purchase even though they are very heavy.

Terry

Perhaps something like this

would be the ticket for storing the RT.

The device is meant to eliminate the lifting of machine vises on and off the table of a BP style mill but I should think that adapting it to your RT would not be too much of a problem.

I would love to have these for the machines at school but I know full well that it would just be a matter of time (and not much at that) before some s**t for brains kid would decide to see how much noise a Kurt style vise would make when he loosened it's clamp on the support.

Errol Groff

Instructor, Manufacturing Technology H.H. Ellis Technical High School

613 Upper Maple Street Danielson, CT 06239

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