Starmill Rotary Table Size Sugestions?

[paragon]

Hello Group,

What size rotary table would you recommend for the Denford Starmill?

I was thinking of a Vertex HV4 (100 mm) but I think it maybe to big?

Any sugestions?

Thanks,
SRG

[SimonRafferty]

A small one!

Why do you need a rotary table - since you can interpolate any hole size and use the existing axes to do pretty much anything a rotary table can do?

I can see using an indexing head as an additional axis - so maybe you mean using it with the axis horizontal?

Si

[paragon]

Thank You for your reply Simon.

The table will be used for a fourth axis.
I decided to go for this table due to the Z axis limitation of the Starmill (115mm) with the intention of converting to CNC (servo / stepper undecided)

https://cgi.ebay.co.uk/HMB-100MM-ROTARY- ... 286.c0.m14

The Starmill Setup in case anyone is interested

I have converted the mill to use EMC2 and have upgraded the stepper motors to double stacked and motion control stepper drives.
https://www.motioncontrolproducts.co.uk/ ... ducts_id=2

The mill rapids are approx 1800mm per minute which is limited only buy the step / dir pulses sent to the para port.

Looking to upgrade to a Messa 7i43 card to improve micro stepping and velocity.

Will be posting images shortly.

Cheers,
Steve

[SimonRafferty]

That looks ideal! Particularly with the Myford chuck adaptor - you could do just about anything!

Si