Midweek 112
- petermillard
- Jan 25, 2023
- 1 min read
Direct link - https://youtu.be/H-mifuJtGAE
Hi everyone; just a quick midweek catch-up after the lengthy weekend vid. There's a little more development on the 'universal' shelf pin jig, the shopify store is - finally - showing up under my YouTube videos, and remarkably now has all the products showing as well!
There's a little cautiously optimistic progress on the 5mm clevis pin conundrum - fingers crossed I'll have some samples from a new supplier in a few days - and generally speaking things are looking pretty good on the product side of things.
Been a good week, so far - hope your's is going well too!
Catch you at the weekend. P
Hi Peter, have you tried this with the Kreg rail?
Looks a great concept. Ticks all the boxes. You may already have solved the problem with the resulting thin sections between the 30 mm holes. The Festool Bush has only approx 6 mm spigot. A stepped hole would make it more robust even if the jig needs to be double sided. Other bushes may be longer?
Excellent Peter, good progress all round 👍
Love to see the progress of the jig, and very good job on making adaptations for the Mafell/Bosch rails.
I did some more online searching and came across Misumi. They have a section for stepped dowel pins (link below). I couldn't seem to find step diameters on the drawing, but there are product details and CAD drawings for download if you make an account (you can make a free individual account). HTH! Oh, and FYI I've been searching with the terms "stepped dowel pin" and "stepped locating pin".
https://us.misumi-ec.com/vona2/detail/110300256840/?searchFlow=results2products&KWSearch=stepped%20dowel%20pin
Hi Peter, thinking about the shelf pin jig and the Dewalt rail, for which there is likely to be a limited audience (and since I’ve now got Festool, I’m one less person that would have bought one 😉). Not sure how much wider the Dewalt central rail is than the Festool rail, but what if you were to have a small scoring cut on the underside of the jig to mark where the Dewalt buyers could use their track saw to widen the slot out to? A bit of self-construction required which is not ideal, but the purchasers will have a Dewalt rail and tracked saw so if you have the scoring cut in the right place it’ll reduce …