A couple domino requests....

[fritter63]

Realized a couple shortcomings this weekend after making a LOT of domino cuts...

- Need the cross stops to be available with pins that work in a 4mm domino hole. Current pins are 5mm or so, they don't fit. Would be nice to have them as just the sliding parts with the pins to replace. Then you can swap out which ones you want to use. Then I wouldn't have had to measure for all those locations...

- Some sort of attachment that lets you re-position a domino (without fence, i.e. when cutting into the middle of a board) based on a current domino hole. IE, you've put a fence across a board to cut a domino, you cut it wrong, and need to re-cut on the same line. But now you have to "guess" at where that line should be based on measurements (ie, 8 mm off the edge of a 4mm domino mortise). And it will never be perfect. But if you could attach a little locator jig to the front of the domino, with a domino shaped protrusion, you could then set a fence based on the edge of the domino machine, re-clamp, and then start cutting in the right place.

hopefully I explained that good enough.

 

[Stone Message]

Part of what you have mentioned would be helped if you had a reference block - I keep mine to hand all the time. You can measure the width of the slots for each of the cutters and, knowing the width of the Domino carriage, you are then able to draw pencil lines anywhere you like. For the few times (actually only once that I can remember) when the cross stop would be useful for 4mm dominos - I just draw a few (more) pencil lines.

I am producing some project videos that feature the Domino 500 and I show a simple homemade jig that sits in the MFT3 which you might find interesting. I hope to have that particular video up on YouTube sometime tomorrow (UK time).

Peter

I have shown the DF700 block but the other one is similar.

 

[fritter63]

Here is how I solved the problem which led to my request #2: I took a couple blocks of ply and cut a domino mortise in them registering off the bottom of the domino (see pictures). This gave me blocks to place in the original holes which then let me set the fence again. Then I could put the domino against the fence and re-cut on the same line:

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Here are the original cuts, reference from the edge rather than + 1/2" to account for the sides of the torsion box:

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The re-cuts, moved in 1/2".

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