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Its a topic that will endless answers as different things matter to different people so you may end up more confused that before asking .
One area I'm really confused on...is the dividing plates. I've never understood the reason for that when you can rotate to whatever degree you want.
Quote from: zeeprogrammer on July 11, 2018, 01:06:45 AMOne area I'm really confused on...is the dividing plates. I've never understood the reason for that when you can rotate to whatever degree you want.I agree, mine doesn't have plates....but I divide with a dividing head which does. Plates are needed for gear cutting among other things when you need accurate (and convenient) division into numbers that don't readily go into 360 degrees, i.e. a 28 tooth gear.
I mostly use a dividing head for dividing and an RT for cutting arcs, there's reason to prefer that, but if you didn't have a dividing head, I'd want dividing features on the RT; way to mount a chuck, can take index plates, take a centre and has a tailstock and can used horizontally or vertically.