Re: First Failure and Help

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Original poster: "robert & june heidlebaugh by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <rheidlebaugh-at-desertgate-dot-com>

Alan:  I place a bolt or wood peg at the distance disired on my drill press
or table saw. I  drill or cut my first hole or slot, move the slot or hole
to the bolt, and cut or drill the next position. That produces equal spaced
positions. No hole is any different from the position of the bolt spacing.
On the table saw I clamp my guide strip to the saw in a piece of ply wood.
   Robert  H
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 > From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 > Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 12:12:20 -0700
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 > Subject: Re: First Failure and Help
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 > Resent-Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 12:19:31 -0700
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 > Original poster: "teri mckenney by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
 > <mck-at-ezy-dot-net>
 >
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 >> Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>
 >>
 >> Hi Alan,
 > <Snip>
 > I'm trying to use strips of a cutting board I made as the
 >>> supports for my primary. Does anybody have a quick and easy method for
 >>> drilling all the holes with the neccessary spacing? The current way i'm
 >>> looking at doing it is where I"ll have to drill a hole, measure .5 inch,
 >>> drill a hole, ad infinitum. Help would be appreciated.
 >>
 >> A $150,000 CNC milling machine is faster...  But you are doing it exactly
 >> the way I would... ;0)  I guess you could mark all the hole locations
 > first
 >> and then drill them...  That poly cutting board would probably just gum up
 >> a CNC machine anyway... ;-D
 >>
 >> No worries, your doing fine.  We never said this stuff was easy ;-)
 >>
 >> Cheers,
 >>
 >> Terry
 >>
 >>
 >>>
 >
 >>> Alan
 > Hey Allen,
 > First figure how high you want the primary to be from the platform.I made my
 > first one only 1/2" off the base and it's hard to get a stick or rag
 > underneath to clean the dust an stuff.An inch would be easier.If you're
 > using 1/4" tubing then cut the strips about 1 3/8" wide. For 1/4" spacing
 > between 1/4" tubing divide the # of strips by 1/4" then stack them on top of
 > each other at these intervals and tape them together and drill all at one
 > time.Fur instance, if using  4 supports then divide 1/4 by  4 which equals
 > 1/16".Stack and tape the 4 supports together with the ends "stairstepped"
 > 1/16" from each other.Then mark each hole 1/2" on center 1and1/8" from the
 > bottom on the support on the top. Drill all the holes 1/4" in diameter then
 > recut the strips at 1and 3/16" from the bottom lenthwise so the tubing will
 > snap into the supports.This way you can always unsnap the primary.You can
 > also just stack all of the strips together evenly and move each strip out
 > 1/16" from each other on the base but remember the last  (first) strip will
 > need one more hole drilled than the rest because the primary starts and ends
 > on this strip. Man I just reread this and it's confusing check out my
 > primary support at http://hot-streamer-dot-com/temp/DSCN0025.JPG  Everyone does
 > it differently so you should piece together everyone's ideas and incorporate
 > it into you're own unique style.Oh yea, don't trust my math!
 > Billy
 >
 >