You can easily make bench dogs to fit your MFT or anything else for that matter on a router table as shown. I used PVC pipe with outer diameter 21.5 mm and reduced it to 20.0 mm. Flat bottom (surfacing) bit works best. Simply hold the pipe with feather boards or whatever, rotate and advance toward the bit. I don’t recommend pressing the pipe with your hand because it is hard to keep it steady. Bit height adjustments took a minute and even on crude plywood table like this achieving 0.03 mm tolerance and repeatability was trivial. The spiral marks are probably due to the bit not being exactly in one plane with the table, but the surface feels pretty smooth. I bet you could cobble together more robust jig and achieve greater tolerance and better finish.
Chop it up to any length you want and you could make a bucket full of these in half hour. These bench dogs fit tight, are pretty rigid and will not bend under pressure when inserted into the bench.
These could be made from solid rod, drilled, tapped etc. Aluminum can also be easily machined in the same manner using wood router at slow speed with small diameter bit, although I do recommend end mill instead of woodworking bit.
P.S. It seems to be customary to name bench dogs after yourself on this forum [poke], so you could refer to these as Svardogs (just kidding) [laughing].
Chop it up to any length you want and you could make a bucket full of these in half hour. These bench dogs fit tight, are pretty rigid and will not bend under pressure when inserted into the bench.
These could be made from solid rod, drilled, tapped etc. Aluminum can also be easily machined in the same manner using wood router at slow speed with small diameter bit, although I do recommend end mill instead of woodworking bit.
P.S. It seems to be customary to name bench dogs after yourself on this forum [poke], so you could refer to these as Svardogs (just kidding) [laughing].
