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When life hands you a lemon, make a jig - WoodworkerTom - 01-17-2016
I am building new cabinets for a dining room. I have prerun beaded cherry door stile material. My dad also has a Hoffmann MU2P dovetail key machine which means no clamps needed for a miter joint. I figured I could crank out the doors in no time. Wrong. Hoffmann stopped working after about 15 key slots. I suspect it needs a new pedal. Air hoses all broke off and I was able to reattach them
In order to keep progress moving along I switched to using a biscuit jointer and Titebond CA glue since I do not have clamps for miters. I have 19 doors to make and making pencil lines to align the bicuit jointer seemed like a PITA.
Decided I needed repeatability so I made a jig.
" />I use the left and right side depending on which miter I need to cut. I put the CA glue in the biscuit slot and joint and activator on the biscuit. Hold together for 30 seconds and done enough to finish curing without holding it.
Re: When life hands you a lemon, make a jig - AgGEM - 01-17-2016
I have found that using PVA with a few drops of CA to hold the joint works well together. Best of both!
Ag
Re: When life hands you a lemon, make a jig - ruffcutt - 01-18-2016
You don't really have to have the machine to use those keys. If have some keys and the router bit in a router table you can still make it work.
That's how I these were done
Re: When life hands you a lemon, make a jig - WoodworkerTom - 01-18-2016
ruffcutt said:
You don't really have to have the machine to use those keys. If have some keys and the router bit in a router table you can still make it work.
My router table is very basic. I don't even have a miter slot on it so making the key slots would be challenging. It's amazing at how basic the process is and that machine sell for $3400. Crazy. In any case I do need to figure out why it stopped working.