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Default Magnetic Featherboards

Prometheus wrote:
On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 18:50:00 +0100, Ogee wrote:


But there's also this model to consider:
http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.a...34&cat=1,43000


I've used this style, and they work great- it was a different brand,
but I don't imagine you have much to worry about with a LV product.

Yes. it would probably do the job, but what's nice about the other
product is the ability to switch the magnets on/off.
Anybody know how that's done?

Guess it's something like in these magnetic bases:
http://www.woodcraft.com/family.aspx?familyid=1666

I'm tempted to buy a Magswitch featherboard and open it just to
see how they do it...