Patrick Perry
10-23-2018, 12:39 PM
I bought a pair of used shaper hold-down spring flats along with brackets that hold them to the steel bar (these 3 parts pictured), but I will need to fabricate a way to mount them to my independently adjustable fences and/or the shaper table.
I have a few different ideas, some using all wood, some metal, but wanted to ask for other ideas. I do not weld but have a guy I pay occassionally to build stuff for me. One of my ideas is to find a pipe stub that they fit inside, drill a hole in the pipe side, and have him weld a nut on the outside so I can insert a tightening bolt. Then I could screw on a "T" to the pipe stub and stub it down to a pipe flange screwed to a board. The board could then be clamped to the back of the shaper table. Actually, if I did it that way, I wouldn't even need the horizontal pipe, I could do it with a pipe "T", and a vertical stub down to a pipe flange. The "T" would have a hole in the top with a nut tacked over it so I could tighten the rod with a bolt. The flange at the table could screw to a board clamped to the table. I could also put a 90 degree elbow between the "T" and flange and screw it to the back of the fence. The mating parts would be ideally tacked with a weld so they didn't spin out of alignment.
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I have a few different ideas, some using all wood, some metal, but wanted to ask for other ideas. I do not weld but have a guy I pay occassionally to build stuff for me. One of my ideas is to find a pipe stub that they fit inside, drill a hole in the pipe side, and have him weld a nut on the outside so I can insert a tightening bolt. Then I could screw on a "T" to the pipe stub and stub it down to a pipe flange screwed to a board. The board could then be clamped to the back of the shaper table. Actually, if I did it that way, I wouldn't even need the horizontal pipe, I could do it with a pipe "T", and a vertical stub down to a pipe flange. The "T" would have a hole in the top with a nut tacked over it so I could tighten the rod with a bolt. The flange at the table could screw to a board clamped to the table. I could also put a 90 degree elbow between the "T" and flange and screw it to the back of the fence. The mating parts would be ideally tacked with a weld so they didn't spin out of alignment.
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