was bored one night and ordered up a chinese clone of a Brown & Sharpe BS-0 dividing head for my mill.
it arrived ok, it weighs probably 30 pounds and it rattled around in the box on the way here, no damage but the box was pretty beat up.
as shipped the chuck had about 20 degrees of runout. the instructions were useless except for a table of dividing ratios in the appendix. youtube has a whole slew of dividing head "experts" showing how to pretty much damage your new dividing head.
long story short the chuck and mounting plate has to be removed to get to one of the runout adjustment locking screws. the chuck on mine was seized on the spindle. heat, pb blaster, kroil, and elbow grease were ineffective at getting chuck off the spindle so back it goes. the replacement it due here thursday. if the next one gives me trouble i'm buying a US unit.
edit: and yes i used a heat gun on the chuck plate, not a torch, it succeeded in making the shop smell like eggrolls.....
it arrived ok, it weighs probably 30 pounds and it rattled around in the box on the way here, no damage but the box was pretty beat up.
as shipped the chuck had about 20 degrees of runout. the instructions were useless except for a table of dividing ratios in the appendix. youtube has a whole slew of dividing head "experts" showing how to pretty much damage your new dividing head.
long story short the chuck and mounting plate has to be removed to get to one of the runout adjustment locking screws. the chuck on mine was seized on the spindle. heat, pb blaster, kroil, and elbow grease were ineffective at getting chuck off the spindle so back it goes. the replacement it due here thursday. if the next one gives me trouble i'm buying a US unit.
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edit: and yes i used a heat gun on the chuck plate, not a torch, it succeeded in making the shop smell like eggrolls.....
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