On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 17:14:58 GMT, "Mike S."
wrote:

jim rozen wrote:

In article , Mike S. says...

Last night while looking for a sheet metal roll former that Dad said
was up in the loft somewhere, I ran across an old X-Y table, or at least
something that resembles an X-Y table. It's fairly small, the table is
about 2" x 2" with 2 t-slots in it, the bottom slide has around a 3"
travel and the top slide might be a bit more. The top slide can also be
rotated to any arbitrary angle relative to the bottom slide.

There's a good chance that this may be a compound
slide for a lathe. See for example:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2563120771&category=12 72

Jim

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Actually, that looks extremely similar to the one I found. I don't know
who made mine though since the only markings I've found so far is a "2
0" stamped underneath the bottom slide. Kinda interesting since the
first thing that came to mind when I saw it was seeing if I could fit it
to my wood lathe. I've been meaning to get pics of it, but have not been
able to do so yet.

Jon Elson: Yes, it does have dovetail slides.

Grant Erwin: Maybe it is too small, but that doesn't mean I'm not
interested in seeing what I can do with it.

Thanks for the help all,
Mike
Grant was right, that thing is useless. Send it to me and you won't
need to worry about having something useless hanging around.
ERS