Unboxing the cheapest adjustable angle plate on Amazon

Taking a look at a cheap angle plate to see if it is good enough for my uses on my mini milling machine.

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[AGEngineering]

I find mine extremely useful for cylinder head work on british twins and triples, good to have. All the best, Ade

[frogdavw]

Thanks for the many enjoyable videos you have made, keep up the good work!
I put one of those tables on my drill press. I put the screw, handle and their bearings into the dust bin. I snug up the clamp bolts, tap the table to the correct angle. And tighten the clamp bolts. Works fast and simple.

[karlh]

Thanks, you answered a lot of questions. As Stefan Gotteswinter says, Import tools are kits!

[craigtate]

When we were younger our toys often came as "some assembly required " now that we are older our toys are "some machining required " lol...definitely a handy device

[robertpearson]

I bought two of these for work (minus the worm gear adjuster) from Grizzly. Same issues with wobble and T-nuts. I made a steel mounting plate to join them together in tandem to make a longer table and for the specific job I bought them for they work fine. The parts I make with them are not very critical. After mounting to the top plate I flipped them and skimmed the feet so they sit flat. I only tighten the locking nuts on the outside ends and I use a digital angle block for adjustment like you do because the scale is out a degree or two. Altogether the unit weighs 125 pounds! I keyed the bottom to make installation easier and drilled and tapped the edge of the top plate for a handle so I can control it when making adjustments.

[wktodd]

The screw is only there to stop the thing falling over as you adjust. Since your unlikely to have anything too heavy on the table, you may as well just lose the screw and mounts.

[olm]

One way to get it to sit flat and true on your table would be to zero out the scale on the fixture, turn the table upside down and mounted it to your mill.
Then mill the "feet" on the table true.

[melgross]

All tilting tables I’ve ever used have handles that are too long to clear the bottom. That’s the way they’re designed, or, with a heavy part on top, you wouldn’t have the leverage to turn it. So you remove the handle to position it when turning it. It’s inconvenient, but so is machining overall. I’m always amazed at how much you get with really cheap tooling from China and now, India. 50 years ago, if you bought a tilting table at the cost this would have been back then, made in the USA, it would have been made from thick sheet metal and pretty much total junk.

[joels]

Excellent review. I had one of these sitting in my Amazon cart. Might still buy it, but it'll definitely take a lot of rework to turn it into a decent tool. I don't know what I expected for the money.

[TheKnacklersWorkshop]

Hello Eddie,
Especially interest as I have been looking at one of these tables... it is more basic than your one as it does not have the worm gear to adjust. Thanks for sharing...
Cheers.
Paul, ,

[junkmannoparts]

I think I bought a 5x7 it does not have the worm no handle probably should do away with that take it apart Mill it off whatever you need to do then you can just bump it into place they seem to work okay good luck

[johnstrange]

I'm sure you'll get your money's worth out of it over time. When you can angle work, you'll start thinking in angled work.

[jackwalshjr]

Huge cosine error the way you have the indicator needle angle.

[wktodd]

Well it looks like its worth 50 quid :-)

[bustednuckles]

I just bought one of these to use on my Smithy also. It is out of the box and sitting on the bench, so far I haven't had time to go through it. Mine doesn't have the gear drive though.
The first thing I thought of is what Bill Todd did, take the screw drive mechanism off.
It looks to be fairly useless anyway.
I would like to see you do another video about this thing after you get it sorted.
Best of luck on your spark plug hole project too.