Sometimes you just get lucky. This "ugly duckling" Spin Indexer was listed on e-Bay at a starting price of $.99 -- and it didn't move. So I felt happy for myself when I won it, but sort of bad for the poor guy that was selling it. I offered to pay a little extra for S/H and he was eager and thankful for the offer. It arrived yesterday and as I suspected, it was binding and beat up, but by the looks of it, someone got some real good use out of it.
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The surprise is that it was a Taiwanese indexer (much preferred over the Chinese verisons) and as a bonus it had a VERY nice Hardinge 1" 5C collet still installed. The Hardinge collet cleaned up real nice and is worth about $20 on the used tool market --
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The front and rear collars were corroded on the shaft, but a little Kroil soak got them loose. It's not a very delicate tool and only has a few precision parts, but it was very corroded and crusty due to neglect.
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All the parts went into the parts washer and were finally cleaned and shined up with a 6" brass wheel on the bench grinder.
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A little hammered paint and some careful reassembly makes this a welcome addition to my machine tooling collection.
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Finished up and final drying in the hot afternoon sun
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The indexer is not a substitute for a good rotary table or dividing head, but for readily divisible angles it is very easy to setup and use. Work holding is accomplished by standard 5C collets.
Great buy and nicely done on the refurbishment.
Sweet tooling addition as well!