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Thanks for watching. Bill
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Good to hear from you. Thanks for jumping in. You can get an idea from these. The right side of the extrusion is higher than the table top. All four of the channels in the table have this issue somewhere along their length. It's not much of a difference but it has proven to make square joins difficult. Flat has to be flat and depending on where the workpiece lies it's simply not. The photos show one example as it was the easiest to capture. Several other areas have a more pronounced difference. Lawrence Last edited by foamx; 10-07-2015 at 10:04 AM. |
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I was more wondering about the repeatability of the locating of the Ridged Connector. I've fiddled with how the Connectors locate when tightened and it seems a hit or miss thing. They're never off much but sometimes the friction between the materials seems to overcome the self aligning feature of the dovetails. If the Connector piece doesn't go in perfectly every time your cut squareness is going to be off.
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Has to be frustrating.
Pockets look deep enough. Don't see any gaps in the width. Wonder if they're binding there? Also wonder if they countersunk the plastic for the fasteners? It happens sometimes where, in this case, the aluminum extrusion is thinner than the thickness of the head of the flathead fastener. So if you don't also countersink the base material the fastener head pushes into it and makes a bump that prevents the pieces from pulling together. It'd be interesting, and the quickest solution, to take it apart and figure out what's up. Keep us posted Quote:
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There's a number of ways the rails could lay higher then the table surface.
I'd pull the rails and check then for straightness, distortion under the screws mounting locations and clearing any debris in the groove. Any company's clamp table like this that uses t-track rails are prone to the issues I noted. For the uses shown in the company images this should be fine for light clamping. In order to not have those concerns you would have to go to a much more expensive design where the clamping tracks are more like the side extrusions but of a boxed nature where clamping forces have to deal with rails of a depth of 2" to 4". This is why when I built my cutting table I used 8020, so I could clamp with high forces when I used it as an assembly table.
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