On Thu, 10 May 2007 20:32:41 +0100, "dennis@home"
wrote:


"Mike Halmarack" wrote in message
.. .
I'm making some horizontal feather boards for use with this table. In
the book I'm reading, to fix the feather boards in place, a wooden
strip is made and threaded metal inserts are added. This strip fits
into the mitre channel and is cramped at each end.

This arrangement seems OK in the book example because the mitre
channel there is 3/8" deep (though even this seem minimal).
On the Trend table the mitre channel is only 1/4" deep which doesn't
provide a lot of depth for screwing down into.

I could add height to the strip but this would raise the feather board
above the height of some small work pieces. It would also leave the
feather board rocking in the air, unless I turn the strip into a T
section, which might produce other problems.
Can anyone offer suggestions, other than buying the official Trend
accessory?

I have used a G cramp to hold feather boards on to router tables before now.

That's the sort of simple solution I usually go for. In this case I'd
need a clamp with a deeper throat than any I currently have. Also, the
table in question is aluminium and has thin walled honeycomb-like open
box sections underneath which don't mate well with the jaw of a clamp.
Not without some modifications being made anyway.
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Regards,
Mike Halmarack