Greetings woodworkers; It turned out there was plenty of room in that piece of micarta, for the longer buttons used in the breadboard ends. So I cut one of the long ones, then drilled in 2 sizes. for a pair of 2" #8 sheet metal screws that you can see the ends of the heads in the attached scan, then sawed it in two, making the saw kerf the clamp limit. Now to see if I can make a locator that will put it back on the mills table at exactly the same position every time. Half tempted to drill some pin holes. Or maybe even take the time to make the align kit that woks with camview-emc, work on this mill. Something broke the interface on the toy mill, gtk update or what.
I got brave and ran the last 2 lid parts thru my planer, taking off just enough I could hear the blades. And my planer did a far better job than theirs, making the fugly, torn all to hell side by their dull planer blades into plumb usable wood by the time I had reduced it to .720" thick. No one will notice that. My planer put a slight snipe in one end of one board, but 10 minutes with an 80 grit pad on an RO sander will fix that right up. Then I grabbed the deer hoist and put the scrap, which was in the middle of the floor on stands, up near the ceiling on some wood racks I got at Lowes last week. So now I have a wee bit more room to walk around without climbing over the junk. That should speed me up a wee bit. But now its break time & I'd better go see what my lady wants for lunch. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
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