Need help - boring 35mm hinge cup holes and my 1010 keeps walking

[Packard]

Not so simple with the Blum jig.  The jig captures the chips in the hollow of its body.  When you unclamp the jig, you have to have the vacuum pointed to capture the chips as you are removing the jig. 

Then you have to turn the jig upside down and use the vacuum to empty out the body of the jig.  Some of the chips get wedged in and at the end of the session, I use a school pencil to dislodge those chips.  It is the one annoyance I have with the Blum jig.

It's almost that simple ...............see response #29 from yesterday.

You drill a hole in the back of the ecojig and jamb the hose into it.  Job done.

Except that the hose connection would probably have to be less than an inch in diameter; maybe as little as a half an inch.  I can’t imagine the the large forstner chips would not clog that almost instantly.

I think that a company like Kreg, with an injection molding mindset, might be able to make one large enough to allow for dust collection.  But the casting would be prohibitively heavy in the same size.  The chips are not the health hazard that the dust would be, so this is just a bit of cleanup.

Also, this is a bring-your-jig-to-the-workpiece and not a bring-the-workpiece-to-the-machining-station.  The hose would greatly limit portability.

 

[Coen]

Never had my OF 1010 or OF 1400 shift on the LR-32 rail.

 

[Crazyraceguy]

Never had my OF 1010 or OF 1400 shift on the LR-32 rail.

I never have either, but apparently it's a thing?  I haven't had the OF1400 on mine, just the OF1010, but I wasn't concerned about it at all. I was only using the 5mm bit though.

 

[Coen]

Never had my OF 1010 or OF 1400 shift on the LR-32 rail.

I never have either, but apparently it's a thing?  I haven't had the OF1400 on mine, just the OF1010, but I wasn't concerned about it at all. I was only using the 5mm bit though.

Topicstarter didn't apparently use the LR-32 set at all.

The LR-32 set is setup to do the 35mm holes too.

 

[Crazyraceguy]

[member=8955]Coen[/member] yeah, he did. That's how this part of the discussion got de-railed.  [big grin]
I suggested clamping the rail down and using the stops to constrain it. He came back, saying that he had used the LR-32 base plate. No one had assumed he even had one.

 

[Coen]

[member=8955]Coen[/member] yeah, he did. That's how this part of the discussion got de-railed.  [big grin]
I suggested clamping the rail down and using the stops to constrain it. He came back, saying that he had used the LR-32 base plate. No one had assumed he even had one.

The opening picture just shows the parallel guide.

 

[bwehman]

[member=8955]Coen[/member] yeah, he did. That's how this part of the discussion got de-railed.  [big grin]
I suggested clamping the rail down and using the stops to constrain it. He came back, saying that he had used the LR-32 base plate. No one had assumed he even had one.

No, I didn't - at first. I ended up using it to fix the original issue I was having.

 

[xedos]

Not so simple with the Blum jig.  The jig captures the chips in the hollow of its body.  When you unclamp the jig, you have to have the vacuum pointed to capture the chips as you are removing the jig. 

Then you have to turn the jig upside down and use the vacuum to empty out the body of the jig.  Some of the chips get wedged in and at the end of the session, I use a school pencil to dislodge those chips.  It is the one annoyance I have with the Blum jig.

It's almost that simple ...............see response #29 from yesterday.

You drill a hole in the back of the ecojig and jamb the hose into it.  Job done.

Except that the hose connection would probably have to be less than an inch in diameter; maybe as little as a half an inch.  I can’t imagine the the large forstner chips would not clog that almost instantly.

I think that a company like Kreg, with an injection molding mindset, might be able to make one large enough to allow for dust collection.  But the casting would be prohibitively heavy in the same size.  The chips are not the health hazard that the dust would be, so this is just a bit of cleanup.

Also, this is a bring-your-jig-to-the-workpiece and not a bring-the-workpiece-to-the-machining-station.  The hose would greatly limit portability.

Pack………it’s the standard festool hose end and it clears fine.  You can even customize a color if you want to.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1283582037/blum-ecodrill-stofafscheidingsadapter

And I’m not real sure about your portability comment.  We all take our router , or sander or whatever with dust hose in tow to our workpieces too.

 

[tjbnwi]

Years ago I bought the CMT hinge boring fixture. It drills the 3 hinge holes at the same time turning only one spindle. After about a year of use I adapted it to a drill press with stops. A little pricey but it save a lot of time and money.

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Tom