Amazon X Y Compound Table - Cheap Milling Machine? 

Thanks for an honest review. It was as I thought. This is what i need for wood and plastics around the farm. Mostly to be able to drill "exact" hole spacings, but the ability to take down the width of something like that little wheel is a perfect examples. Guess all the holes in things i make now will be spaced with 12/24/36/48mm spacings 😆

Hi Nick, I used my old Cheap X Y Table on my dremel Drill press for a few years to modify 1950s model trains for digital conversions. Finally i had a task I could do manually, it require much more accuracy and repeatability. So i took the handles off and connected a Stepper motor. I found a CNC Shield Board that fits on top of an Arduino Uno Hobby Micro Controller. then I added A4988 Stepper drivers, Installed GRBL Firmware into the Arduino and UGS frontend G Code Generator to my Laptop PC. Wired it up. Oh I also took an old steeper off my 3 D Printer designed and printed a Dremel Adaptor to a Z Axis that fit the Drill Press post. Viola! With a lot of You Tube tutorials and about $100 I have an honest to goodness CNC Mini Milling Machine. I have 12 older Steam Engine Chassis from 1936 to 1955 that I need mill a slot for clearance to add a timing Gear to the Drive gear for Puff & Chuff Digital control. And guess what? It worked. The Old X Y Tables work BUT i really need to upgrade to ball bearings, Which i also found on You Tube and for $25 I ordered the parts. Serious Well Under $200 complete I have a 4000 Dremel, Drill Press, Microlux X Y Table and a hand full of Internet of Things stuff Hardware/Software and Free Code I have assembled a 3 Axis CNC Mill. OK 8 by 4 inches maybe, its a Mini Mill, but I can draw a rectangular Slot, translate that to G Code, send that to Motion controller, then set up the part to be machines and cut the slot into it accurately and reload and cut a nother one exactly the same. Don't under estimate these cheap little tools, the newer tech is really cool, not expensive, the free GRBL Code is from MIT! I had a 3D Printer for years it was kind of cheap but I liked the size and just keep fixing it with Upgrades. the summer a whole new Firmware came out that requires a new controller and mini touch screen but My printer is new born better, more accurate, faster and i can print all my parts easier. That experience lead me to upgrade my Dremel and Drill Press with manual X Y Table and its NOT Rocket Science, it is tech but lots of tutorials and folks to help. I do not know how the code does what it does. I just know if set up up and design my part the machine can make it. I am thrilled, my first cut video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zMleoU6Nzng.html

Nice. I bought this to use on my drip press and got it at a good price as well

PET THE CAT DAMMIT!!!

I use one just like it for my drill press. I did try milling a little it works for plastic but nothing harder. I do however really like it for drilling.

On the hold down clamps; the outside bolt, the bolt head is supposed to be on the top of the table. Much easier to do adjustments. The operation manual actually has a picture of how it is supposed to be set up.

Thank you for saving me some money.

Works great for milling 80% lowers

Thank You for a good review on this cheap xy table. I will probaly buy one soon. I think that the quality is good enough considering the price.

looks like I can add my press vice to this and make it a sliding press vice giving me X/Y movement in a more compact package that'll work great on a compact drill press

Probably don’t need to say this but drill presses bearings aren’t really designed for axial loads so I would be pretty careful using it that way

It looked like maybe you needed to set the RPM's, I couldn't tell from the video. Cutting speed times four, divided by the diameter, (in this case the endmill) will give you your RPM's, there are charts for cutting speeds (and feeds for that matter). I think in this case about 1,200 RPM's would work. For drilling, I think this crossfeed table is the "E" ticket! Thanks for the video.

Lol nice kitty my cat used to do the same always right there wanting to be petted when your doing something important.

Thanks for support...

Great video... Thanks

Thank you!

Hey, how accurate is it side to side please? I have to mill 2mm deep in very soft metal for 15mm straight line with a 2mm end mill. What do you think the side to side variation would be over that distance I'm doing just one or two slots so have all the time to set it up.I just dont want it to jump sideways.. guess is fine of course. Thanks!

It depends on the speed and the depth. On a cnc milling machine it would work best ? I got one and at 10000 rpm it works very well. A fact is we cannot expect high load sof this device. ;=)

Love your cat :D

Did you ever try plunge cutting with it. Set a depth stop, and plunge with a center cutting endmill, and advance in the direction you want but .010"-.015" and since drill presses are made to take that direction of force better than side loading. Rough it close to your desired size and then side mill it?

That's why you upgraded and you put another style clamp or vice or tool holder from a mini lathe to depending on where you put it on the table would make where you start your measurements from I think you're doing it all by hand it's not a CNC it should be easy as hell you're not writing programs to run a CNC machine to cut parts your basically turning your drill press into a milling machine or a mini lathe

Drill press bearings aren’t made for the side loading that milling creates.

To be a fair review one needs to eliminate all those outside variables to provide a accurate assessment of the table itself. I think I will take a chance and purchase one. thanks

And if you're going to finish the surface with a sandpaper or grinding stone you need to leave your cut a little bit higher than your intended target otherwise you will be too small after you finish grinding or smoothing your cuts flat cuts flat

I lost the clamps, is there any alternatives?

Nice video....would be possible use router bits?

Wouldn't it be wise to increase the RPM to get better cuts and finishes???

Look at that just like I suspected you don't have to place your work in the center of that XY table either you can offset it because you're doing it by I not buy machine or program so if you mess up you mess up not the equipment so any mistakes you make their on you which is why all the Carpenters say measure twice cut once

I do wood milling with router

the music the best part of this !

Your vibrating because it's a drill press your press tables not locked or your press is not locked in the highest position and it is moving up and down when it's running or there is a little bit of play in your bearings for your cutting I'm sure you didn't check any of that a lot of the drills I've used I've seen the tend to wobble a little bit specially if they have a cheap chuck they are not 100% center when they cut the which gives you a little bit of wobble

Sir price

about 1/2 of the music volume would be much better

the cat likes it ! he says it smells like china fish bait

thanks, 10/10 will be getting one. i wasnt expecting tolerances thin than a pubic hair

U think if u used a dremel in place of the drill there would be different results with metal

The speed is way too slow, and the mill mounted in a drill chuck is not recommended.

Never mind

Depending on what country was made in more than likely China it's running the metric system or centimeters not standard SAE did you finish school

Kitty

Drill rpm is too low. And when milling add some WD40

Eyeball it Burt

And you do a way better job if you slowed your turning of the XY table down you wouldn't miss so much material and leave lines in your pieces that you are cutting like you did that plastic pulley

You'd better recalculate 10 mm because 10 is half a size bigger than 3/8 3/8 and 9 mm are the exact same 10 mm half a size bigger than a 3/8 that's why 10 mm strip out 3/8 bolts more closer to a half inch but not exactly because 13 and 1/2 are the same so your calculations of 10 mm being an inch is not correct

how many stitches did you get for trying to mill with a drill chuck? the chuck will chase you... NEVER mill with a drill chuck, EVER.

You need to learn about feeds and speeds now.

The sudden, unexpected, excessively loud "music" breaks make this just too painful to watch . . . might have been interesting . . .

Sorry bro, but you need to learn the basics. You lost your screw nuts 🤷🏻‍♂️ just fix them with rubber band or something.

You just had to put some fucked up music in there didn’t you……

The loud music noise pissed me off. You should listen first before publish "You idiot". Stick it...

These tables are garbage. ok for wood and plastic. if you want for metal dont bother. mine went in the bin