18x6 Inch Compound Slide Table CNC Table

Like others have said, it's a good value for the money. I would recommend it to anyone but a machinist. The bad: The acme screw is pretty rough. Mine needed to be removed and filed and sanded. And it was a little bent. After an hour of work and some grease it works very well. Out of the box it has a lot of backlash but that's easy to fix with a couple washers. The good: I got the backlash down to about .003. I think that's pretty good. The markings on the hand wheels are pretty accurate. I used a dial indicator to check and they are nearly spot on 1:1 (at .001). The table appears very flat and true but I don't have the means to verify it. And also appears to be true perpendicular. All quite impressive for such an affordable table. I also really like the travel distance. The only thing I wish it had - and I'm not even sure if this is a thing - is a lock so you could lock it in place. All in all, sturdy, accurate, and works well. I look forward to using it (more) over the years.

One. of the best. shipping protections witnessed. HD box, styrofoam core, thin plywood cube layer. Decent cast iron. Heavy weight. Semi precise- X/Y- table surface. Very good design. Decent hardware for the price ratio. NO comparison. VS a high dollar. Precise Table. Better than other copycats. Having shameful QC, Toy like designs. Lackluster, final quality control. Not a product for a rookie. Complete dis-assembly required.! Razor sharp edges. Needed deburing everywhere. Mandatory, Cleaning. Dirty protective grease. Allowing. Sand polish, filing, surface areas. Results. smooth action. X compound axis. good design, horrible tolerance. NO bushing.. Y axis. Solo pedestal. metal to metal contact. Evaluated, ordered 16mm OD roller bearings. Also M16 mill bit. Bore out. guide pedestals. install. m16 bearings. Slip fit. 10mm screw guideshaft. Goal.. provide a precision fit. Super smooth X / Y action. should have been. Part of the original design! Adding a few dollars. Overall. very good base design. Table needs final QC and modification. Excellent value to performance with bearing mods. and time *Finally bored out X / Y guidescrew pedestals. perfect fit. ** Fantastic results. bored with .629 mill bit. Precise fit. m16 roller bearing. Countersunk pedestal. Made copper 10m ID bearing shims. Provides spacing. between dial indicator & bearing race. Runout is great. Did not feel any movement. Time. to break out my dial indicator. Compared to original, poor. NO sleeve or clearance control. Validated .001 dial graduations. 10 equals .100 Ten turns = 1.00" crossvalidated with mitutoyo calipers L & R. base/ table distance 5.500 Zero'd- X -axis. dials. Punched table. Dead center. Also 2" & 4" trimmed, added 1- O -1 centering ruler. Great, quick reference guage. Extremely accurate! Precise with dial caliper. **Started mod. Perfecting- Y -axis. original design. One pedestal. Nothing supports. rear. UNessessary. fully threaded- Y -screw. Rotation, Forces threads. Rubbing against rear 3/4 hole. Removed .450 off rear threads. Spun to 10mm OD Made a 1.850 x 1.200 x .750 flange. Milled .825 od x .629 id, Drilled 2 holes. installed m16od x m10 id. bearing. Precision fit. Now. Perfected. Y axis.! Mated to a Central machinery 34" radial floor drill press. Next. handles. Do not. have a sleeve. Poor. tolerance fit. on shoulder screw. ***** I love using this table. soooo.. SMOOTH. Precise & effortless movement.

I must say, this was the right pick for a good working compound cross slide table. I read the reviews and made my decision to buy this one. Everything about it says quality and durability. Well packaged and protected from shipping damage along with plenty of protective coatings. The description says 65 pounds, but I think it was much less which made handling better. The bolt down groves matched my stand perfectly. There seems to be very little lost motion in the screws. As I read, it is obviously for the lighter shop use which is perfect of me and my old Buffalo drill press. I wish I had bought it long ago!

The product is not metric as others have stated. Graduations are .001 inches. One full turn of the handle is .1 inches. I made a small mark on a piece of masking tape on the table, turned the handle 10 times, and it moved exactly 1 inch. Tried again, this time 20 revolutions, and it measured 2 inches. Anyway, I just unpacked the table and everything seems to be tight, sturdy, well made. Tons of travel! Reasonably priced. The only issue is that I can only bolt it down on one side (see photo 1). It’s pretty secure with just two bolts. I used a pair of wood clamps on the other side (not pictured.) Overall, I’m thrilled with the purchase, especially the fact that I won’t have to be converting metric to inches as I was led to believe.

I tried two other x/y vice setups for use on my drill press. They were all astonishingly sloppy. This thing is heavy and has little to no slop, and is exactly where I should have started looking rather than an all in one vice that could adjust, that vibrated like crazy even with soft metals and wood. Very highly recommended. So much cast iron for the money. Ease of movement can be helped by installing a 4mm thick needle style thrust washer set on each mounting point (3). You may have to grind just a touch off the keys on the shaft to help them fit. The difference is enormous as you can clamp each end properly tight, when before tightness actually causes a binding. In doing so, almost all slop vanishes beyond that remaining from the thread itself. To those who care, the edges aren't eased at all, but fine by me. The more weight the better.