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(02-18-2018, 08:21 AM)handi Wrote: Your drawing shows something around 20 feet of t-track if I am reading it reasonably right and that only covers a small part of your table. At $7 per foot for the track, that’s $140.00 If you have a cheaper price, do share with us, because I honestly would like to know about it.
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(02-18-2018, 11:41 AM)photobug Wrote: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XSX...UTF8&psc=1
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So at $5 per foot, you are in for about $100.
I used to buy t-track anytime I saw it on sale since I am a jig and fixture maker. Now I do not bother, between dovetails and t-slot cutters, I simply do not need the track.
PM me and I will happily have Microjig send you a Dovetail Hardware kit.
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(02-18-2018, 11:53 AM)handi Wrote: So at $5 per foot, you are in for about $100.
I used to buy t-track anytime I saw it on sale since I am a jig and fixture maker. Now I do not bother, between dovetails and t-slot cutters, I simply do not need the track.
PM me and I will happily have Microjig send you a Dovetail Hardware kit.
Thanks Ralph, I will happily take you up on that. With that in mind I will add some dovetail grooves onto my table. It will be intermixed with the T-track. I will be able to do a side by side comparison. I will probably hold off on the dog holes as I have yet figured out how to install them, how I'd like for less than $100.
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(02-18-2018, 01:26 PM)photobug Wrote: Thanks Ralph, I will happily take you up on that. With that in mind I will add some dovetail grooves onto my table. It will be intermixed with the T-track. I will be able to do a side by side comparison. I will probably hold off on the dog holes as I have yet figured out how to install them, how I'd like for less than $100.
I made a clamping table about 30 x 40” with dovetails in a grid and dog holes in the center of each square.
I used an indexing router base to cut the grid lines, so the squares were very uniform in size. Because of that, I was able to make a router fixture for cutting the dog holes. This was a simple hole template with cleats on two adjacent edges to fit into the Dovetail grooves for indexing.
I wanted the dog holes to be as close to the center of each square as possible, but this is mostly for vanity. Functionally, there is no need to have them so, the holes and the grooves (be they T or dovetail) typically do not work as one.
If I still had a client nearby with a full sized CNC, I would have written the program and had them run the top for me. Doing it manually is a LOT of work.
