Rick Potter
11-07-2012, 1:09 PM
I picked up a Ritter single spindle horizontal boring machine a while back, and want to use it for glueing up panels using dowels. It works great, but sometimes I am just a tad off matching holes from one board to another. (Talking about side to side matching.) This makes it difficult to align the boards.
I am doing this by pencil mark, and obviously eyeball some of them slightly wrong. Does anyone have any experience building a table to mount to the machine that would allow me to get the dowel holes consistantly the same distance apart?
I am thinking of a table that slides side to side with stops built into the fence somehow. I imagine you would start at the center of each workpiece and work out to the sides with the dowel holes.
I don't want to reinvent the wheel if there is a way to do this that I am not aware of.
Any help appreciated.
Rick Potter
I am doing this by pencil mark, and obviously eyeball some of them slightly wrong. Does anyone have any experience building a table to mount to the machine that would allow me to get the dowel holes consistantly the same distance apart?
I am thinking of a table that slides side to side with stops built into the fence somehow. I imagine you would start at the center of each workpiece and work out to the sides with the dowel holes.
I don't want to reinvent the wheel if there is a way to do this that I am not aware of.
Any help appreciated.
Rick Potter