I am trying to put together a 4-axis machine and am really not rich, so I need to stay to a budget.

I was thinking of converting my grizzley mini-mill to CNC, but then realized that the turntable might take half the bed space, so I began to think that maybe DRO scales and a belt conversion on the mini for one off projects and building the four axis around a Sieg X3 would be a better idea, unless someone made a fourth axis mount that mounted the turnable off the table so it wouldn't demand half the table space.

So I saw the page for Syil (the taiwanese company offering three and four axis [as far as I know] packages for the Sieg X3). With the X3 I doubt that bedspace would be a problem but I need help finding an affordable forth axis table and center combination to use. it would be really nice to find one that didn't need to be tended and locked manually every time it made a turn.

If anyone could help lead me to a solution that would be great.

Well, I believe you are thinking of a rotary table which can be mounted in a horizontal or vertical position. To prevent having to manually lock....you'll need to have a motor with sufficient torque to rotate the rotary table and to offset any cutting torque that it sees.

Yeah that was what I was thinking of.

I was thinking of CNC-ing my mini-mill, although I would need at least 8 inches of bed so if the turn table took up more than that I would need to do a syil X3 in which case I now realize they have 4-axis settups ready to go. (I don't know their price though.

That is exactly why that is so tough-- knowing where to find a good turn-table and what motor and stuff is pretty technical and I'm just a guy trying to set up a cheap 4-axis to make turning out a part easy for my lame no-machining ass. (chair)