Model Forum / General / Models / October 2007

Just taken delivery of one of the Shoba 6 inch rotary table kits, with
the extras, indexer, centre, etc etc, and a few other bits and pieces
from Chronos...

1/ Obviously haven't had a chance to use it in anger yet.

2/ pre-sale email enquiries were answered promptly.

3/ a big plus for me, not plastic only, they were quite happy to take
a cheque in the post.

4/ time from posting cheque and order to parcel arriving was very
short.

5/ parcel extremely well wrapped, several layers of extremely good
wrapping in fact, good padding, and when you get down to the chunks of
metal all nicely oiled and sealed in plastic.

6/ the rotary table itself is extremely well made for the money, there
is about 4 minutes of backlash in the worm gear, but this is even
throughout the revolutions of the table, and backlash is over rated as
a problem, lazy machinists who don't like to measure enough dislike
backlash.

7/ the table is nice and solid, apart from the backlash can't fault
it, and it entirely justifies me taking a gamble on an obviously cheap
new table vs an old second hand quality table via ebay with unknown
issues and wear, nota bene, uneven wear on an old table will be more
of an issue than even backlash on a new one.

8/ as i said above, included for 120 odd quid are indexing plates,
tailstock, and even a decent little set of hold down bolts and clamps
for use with the table, that's about two hours labour at a commercial
garage rates.

http://tinyurl.com/33d62e item ref SOB1 (lol)

No connection with them, but (unlike some others I could name) a
pleasure to deal with, excellent value for money, and certain to be
getting more of my money (unlike some others I could name) and as
their website does not allow feedback like Axminster etc I have chosen
to leave it here in the hope that others who may be dithering have a
little more info about the vendors out there and the products they
sell.

cheers