Do either of you have some pictures of yuor add on items?
"John Martin" wrote in message
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The swivel table itself is the valuable part. Mine came with adequate
but unimpressive centers and I had to make a base for it. The centers
could be turned from drill rod and the brackets made from cheap
machined angle plates like these:
http://www.use-enco.com/CGI/INSRIT?P...PMAKA=418-4515

If you can find one good ground angle plate you can use it to square up
the cheap ones.

Good luck
Jim Wilkins

Checked the swivel table last night and it has SCG 150 cast in, which
matches the scheme of the Delta parts, so I guess the dealer was right
and it is truly a Delta table. Came with the swivel.

I'm guessing that to set these up you don't rely on the angles on the
swivel, but put a test bar between centers and clock it in with a dial
test indicator on the head or column or base.

I may end up making the centers, and the angle plates are a good idea.
I'll also be keeping my eyes open for some matched dividing head
tailstocks. The flat tops on many of those seem to allow pretty good
access and clearance.

My intent is to use it more for sharpening than for surface grinding.
Although I'm not really sure why. When I mentioned horizontal milling
cutter sharpening, the dealer I got the table from (Brothers Machinery
in North Andover, Mass. - really decent folks) pulled open a couple of
big drawers of resharpened perfect cutters and said "Five bucks each -
why would you want to resharpen yours?". Somewhat the same with end
mills, although I may pick up one of those 5C fixtures to resharpen the
ends only. Or hold them in my spin indexer, on an angle plate. Other
sharpening would include reamers, shaper (wood) cutters, jointer &
planer knives and the like.

What do you do with yours? What tooling and fixturing have you found
helpful? Also, any good books?

Many thanks,

John Martin
Cumberland, Maine