Customer Reviews for Dividing Head Indexing Head Milling BS-0-4inch/100MM for Milling Grinding

Works fine good quality.

Well made. Good precision. Just wish the manual was a bit more thorough.

For the price you can not beat this dividing head!!

I wasn't expecting this item to arrive for another week, and I had no idea what I was going to find on my front porch today. It came in a sturdy box with three straps. I picked it up to tote it to the shop, and was concerned to hear tink clink sounds as I walked. With some trepidation, I cut the straps, and cut open the box.The first thing I found was some meaningless generic inspection sheet. Youtube is full of videos of people checking these things out, and finding the actual errors on the actual product aren't even close to the numbers printed on the sheet. I figured this would be no exception, so I set the sheet aside and ignored it.Under the sheet was a decent quality manual. It's not terribly helpful, and I have no idea how to actually read the charts in the back. It's sort of written in English. It has some strange errors, but nothing horrible, and it's basically comprehensible. It's just not especially helpful. I figured I would go remedy that problem by digging up a copy of the real Brown & Sharpe manual, and that's when I discovered that the manual included with this product is pretty much a word for word and picture for picture copy. The pictures in the manual with this product are actually more helpful, and the charts in this manual are easier to read. So neither one of them is going to teach me much about how to use this accessory, but the Chinese manual is actually a bit better than the original on the whole.The product itself seems to be made quite well. I haven't cut any gears yet, because it arrived before my gear cutters. What I have done is play with everything. The action when cranking the chuck around is very smooth. The action of locking the direct indexing plunger into the holes in the front plate just couldn't be any better than it is. It has just enough slop to function without feeling sloppy. The action of dropping the plunger on the crank into holes on the indirect indexing side plates feels a little janky, but it's not bad. I've never

looks very nice, seems to function wella nice addition to my indexing heads

excellent quality for the price point, no more or no less backlash etc in the gearing than many other "higher quality" units that i have looked at and also used, few of the edges on the machined surfaces needed a lick with a file to reduce the sharp edges to my liking, and i found the jaws in the chuck a bit snug initially, so upon removal all surfaces were deburred and improved their function dramatically, but that is just a caution thing as i will be using it to teach a junior and want to minimise the risks as they are learning and still have 'electrician soft' hands.. certainly recommend this unit to anyone looking to add to their arsenal, and the delivery speed was fantastic. can't beat the quality for this price bracket considering the competitors pricing for the exact same size unit is almost triple the price!! even without the postage, so the half an hour spent deburring some fluffy edges makes it streets ahead in my book.

I was pleasantly surprised to the quality of the dividing head. I haven't checked the accuracy yet with a Sign Bar, but will report later if inaccurate. The grinding / finish is pretty good, but as all off shore tools the de-burr had to be done. Stoned off all the sharp edges. The 3 Jaw has a runout of .003 which is respectable for the price.

That this item is even available for this price, with a 5" chuck, blows my mind. Be aware it's a pretty substantial chuck of metal, feels like about 40lbs but I haven't bothered to weigh it, so if you're putting it on a mini mill like I did it's going to eat half your table. Worked like a champ out of the box with no cleaning so far, so apparently I got lucky, although I haven't had the chance to do the gear cutting I bought it to do so that still may be necessary. Even if it is I don't care, totally 5 stars.

I love it. Fits well to my mill. Very good quality. Works great.