I bought this Smithy 3-in-1 off of Craig's list the other day. I have some projects that I'm working on and need help with a technique for cutting a round plate. I want to cut a 1/4" or 3/8" thick carbon steel plate into a disk for an adaptor on a go Kart I'm building.
It came with a rotary table, but I'm not sure how to center the table so I can cut the plate. Also, how do you clamp the plate to the rotary tablie in order to make one continuous cut. Do I drill a hole in the plate and then bolt it to the rotary table?
Thanks for any help guys!
It also came with about 200 cutters, reamers, end mills, parallels, edge finders, dial indicators, a 3 and 4 jaw chuck, end mill adaptors, 123 blocks, fly cutters and lathe tooling. It's mostly chinese tooling, but good enough for what I'm trying to do right now.
I already made a fork brace for the Honda V65 which was a lot of fun and not too challenging. I free-handed the curved parts. Doesn't look too good, but it fits.
