Evening everyone! Just finished drilling 350+ holes to create my fixture table until I have the money for a dragon wagon or full-size table, and I have an issue. I ended up having some variance to my holes, where the fence blocks don’t always line up, and I have a feeling I know why. (I only used 1 hole in either side for reference, and had to go 3 times wide with the template, so I think I have compounding error).
Do you think I should take the template, and go perpendicular to how I initially drilled them, and redrill all the holes? It would make them slightly loose.
Does anyone have any other suggestions? Thanks in advance!
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It does have a slight crown to it, and I know for sure if played a part. I also have a carbide cutter coming, as all those holes were drilled with 1 hss but surprisingly! I will try reaming the holes with the carbide bit, and see if that helps. Template is super high quality, and very satisfied with it! Just know it was a bit of my human error for sure.
I’m plaining to start mine next time home, and when those tables went on sale with free delivery I almost just puled the trigger, but I had just bought 800$ Wirth of Fireball tools. I got to say, I’m more than a little concerned I’m going to end up with a problem like this
I wouldn’t hesitate at all. Get a carbide bit, I think that will help mitigate some of the issues. Also, if you’re going to need more then 1 set of holes wide, tie into a few of the holes instead of just 1 like I did. I think that will help out as well. Make sure you have plenty of cutting lube, cause I drilled over 400 holes with 1 high speed steel annular cutter in my 1/2" table.
I was going to do the same thing, just didn’t have the cash to buy a dragon wagon. But I ended up getting 1500 worth of the tooling, and can’t wait to use it! Good luck with the drilling, it takes a bit but I think it’ll definitely be worth it.
I reccomend having a bridge reamer on a hand drill and chasing the holes out with the drill jig in place. even though i have not used the fb tool drill jig this way i have with others successful this is a fairly pain-free efficient method. i would add that using coolant of some sort through out the process will ideally add to precision, efficiency and longevity
Good suggestion, I actually already have a bridge reamer from a 1’ x 1’ tetest run at a fixture table I did with a buddies oxy/accet. Cnc torch ( failed test)
