No. I was traveling over 150,000 miles a year as part of the business. I ended up in the hospital with deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolisms. I decided I didn't need to kill myself to make a living. Too difficult for you to understand?
Drill Press Cross-Feed Table
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Clintock
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What’s difficult to understand is since you’re so smart and know everything there is to know about milling why the hell you’d come here and ask questions and get legitimate answers just to be a dick and tell folks they don’t know what they’re doing. Glad it all worked for you and you get to tell folks told ya so. As for the other, oh well....
I asked a very simple question. Did anyone have a recommendation for a cross-slide table? Nothing more. Instead, I got a lot of answers not related to that question. I tried to make it really clear that I understood exactly the limitations of the machine and also clearly understood the processes I was going to do. I got very little help and a lot of attitudes that I didn't know what I was doing. I didn't post on a machining forum because those guys are more interested in higher-end machining and its tools and processes. That's not what this question was about. It would be like me going to a broadcast video forum and asking what video camera someone would recommend for making videos of my dogs.Why are you being so arrogant? And why are you asking on a Tractor Forum?
I don't know everything. I haven't been near a machine shop in 35 years. Haven't looked for machining equipment in 40 years. I was hoping someone might actually have a relevant piece of information. I asked a very simple question, and instead of getting the answer to that question I got told every reason anyone could think of that I couldn't make it work, I would ruin the machine, etc. etc. TWO people gave me leads on potential cross-slide tables out of all of the posts. I was looking for an answer. Yup, YOU got my number alrighty, I certainly came to the wrong place and I won't make that mistake again. You've convinced me.
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Good for you, you borrowed possibly the finest cross slide accessory. How much did the Troyke weigh? My 12 inch Troyke cross slide rotary table is so heavy I use a crane attached to a rolling bench to put it on the mill. It is way too heavy for me to lift. I have never seen a Troyke cross slide but I'm not surprised they made them. What size is the one you borrowed? Oh, just for curiosity, what brand is the drill press?
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There actually was not a question in the OP at all, first question mark you used was in #14 after you received responses you didn’t want.
You said not “high precision work” but never did say what tolerance you were trying to hold. Best we could surmise from what you have written is that “very high precision” means a tenth of a thousandth, to you and “bandsaw“ precision is three thousandths.
Being specific about your needs would have been more productive than arguing on the internet…
You did get recommendations, at least one of the folks poo poo’ing the idea had already been down the road of using an X/Y table on a drill press, in a milling fashion. I still have one that I use with an edge/center finder to line up center punched drill locations.
That said, I also have another pretty good drill press that I got for free after the spindle was broken, from using it as a mill, and I took it apart and repaired the break and it’s as good or better than new now. So the outcome of such undertaking hasn’t always been negative, for me.
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