kinda dinking around with a mill toy from Vevor, I couldn't resist, got a 5" mill vice on a rotating base and the tilting index with a three jaw chuck to my door quite reasonable. Been very happy with vevor, pulled the index apart to check and not the gritty mess inside so many report with chinese tools.
Thought a face plate would be handy, found one with an 1 1/2" x 8TPI thread from a grizzly closeout page, was probably for a wood lathe.
A bit of lathe work
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and it fits on the index and now registers "pretty good". Took face run out from .008" down to .002"
View attachment 235489 Threads are REALLY crude, think it's cast iron. Machined a bore and face to fit the index.
Still got one more idea to bring it right in. Then used the index to clean up the very rough "as cast" nut on the face plate.
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Kinda using a tool to make itself. LOL
I'm terrible but
finally got the VFD control solidly mounted in a convenient location. Looks like I need to get busy with some wire ties and some sort of wire support too.
Cutting a hole and recess for the control head into the extrusion was a heads up that my rith-ma-tic n geometry are very rusty.
'Spose now I'm going have to, GASP! make some parts with it?