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I bought this little 3" rotary table with chuck last week at an estate sale. Not knowing at the time, took it home, looked closer, and noticed that the chuck was glued onto rotary table.  What the heck! Never seen that before! Whata hack job!
Should have known better when this persons estate sale had there hobby shop set-up in the kitchenette area of the house! Lathe, mill, piles of stuff, chips on/in the hard wood floor and mostly Harbor Freight stuff. Anyway, what I got was also Import, but not that bad. Didn't take much to knock the chuck off the RT. Cleaned up the epoxy. Took everything apart and cleaned and lubed. Made T nuts. Put two mounting holes in the chuck. And now it's usable.
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Could come in handy.  I bought an import at an estate sale maybe 5 years ago. Never did use it yet.  But it's there should I want to put it to work.

I have a 4" RT I bought few years back. Used it for the first time last week. It's made where I can clamp on it in my Kurt vise rather than bolting it to the mill table. Used it to cut a full radius on the end of a piece of flat bar for the dividing head project.