Temporary 21829 stopblock

[gwyneth]

Last night, I was looking around for stuff to make a stop block for crosscutting.

It's going to be a while (if ever) before I set up the routing stuff that comes with the 21829. So I put half of the router fence to work.

I slid one of the black square nuts in the router stuff box into the miter fence. It receives one of the handles. The combo slides and tightens very well.

The three pieces can go back to their real purpose at any time, of course, because I didn't have to do anything to them.

[LCHIEN]

clever use of existing stuff. It never ocurred to me.

P.S. The rip fence is the same extrusion as the miter fence. That setup on the blade side of the rip fence will also make a fine longer stop for cutting items on the miter fence/SMT. The block before the blade prevents the possibility of kickback since the workpiece won't be against the fence when it goes past the blade.

[jhgrady]

Hi

Nicely done!

John

[sparkeyjames]

You know that same setup could be used on the rip fence for doing dado's. Finally some useful purpose for those
horrible router fence parts.


sparkeyjames

[big tim]

Darn good idea!

Tim

[gwyneth]

Finally some useful purpose for thosehorrible router fence parts.

Let's be fair--it's the router fence that they're supposed to assemble into that's awful, not most of the parts.

About six or seven years ago, I bought a strange "jig kit" (don't remember what its official name was) direct from Ryobi for my BT3000, and for twenty five or thirty bucks(!) it contained almost the same selection of nuts, handles, and screws.

[Pappy]

Great idea. I have the stop block kit and have never been real impressed with it.

Loring's idea was good, too. Might be a bit harder to put on and remove but it would provide a solid stop block.

[sparkeyjames]

Ok let me rephrase that ....

Finally some useful purpose for that horrible router fence's parts.

subtle.


sparkeyjames.

[gwyneth]

Great idea. I have the stop block kit and have never been real impressed with it.

Loring's idea was good, too. Might be a bit harder to put on and remove but it would provide a solid stop block.

Wouldn't it be just as easy, given that it's the same extrusion? Unless you mean that the nut wouldn't have an open end to go into.

(I've re-looked at the horrible instructions for the horrible router fence and the router fence sections appear to attach to the saw fence.)

Also, I was looking at stop block threads of the past and somebody was using one on his fence that was exactly an inch thick. I went and measured the part formerly known as 'right router fence' and it appears to be...exactly an inch thick.

So with Loren's idea, I could use the part formerly known as 'left router fence' because it would be the 'face side' that would be doing the work, not the 'end side' as in the SMT fence stop block. Very cool, very little work.

[JR]

Gosh, I've had those fence-y things for years and it never occured to me to use them in this way.

Good thing I didn't throw them out when I built my router fence!

JR

[timb]

You know that same setup could be used on the rip fence for doing dado's. Finally some useful purpose for those
horrible router fence parts.


sparkeyjames

While I get the stop block idea - definately a useful piece of wisdom. Thanks Gwyneth - I am at a bit of a loss as to how mounting these on the rip fence helps with dados. Please enlighten.

[footprintsinconc]

nice idea!

neat thinking! never would have thought about it. i have clamped wood to the fence trying to accomplish the same thing. i will now be using this instead.

[gwyneth]

Gosh, I've had those fence-y things for years and it never occured to me to use them in this way.

Good thing I didn't throw them out when I built my router fence!

The key to the thing working was the black nut that slides in the miter fence (and of course the handle and the bracket slot on the part formerly known as "half a horrible router fence".)

But the real key is the modularity of the whole system, so that the nut would work in places besides its ended location. The reason we keep loving the Ryobi/"Craftsman".

PS-Sparkey, what I meant was that if the parts can be reincarnated into more useful applications than their original use, they aren't horrible, no matter how dreadful the original use is.

[Zip1]

timb,

I might be interpreting this wrong but it may have been better to state that mounting these on the rip fence helps with rabbets using a stacked dado.

The router fence pieces could be used along the rip fence on either side of the dado blade to perform the same function as a sacrificial fence.

... another excellent idea. Thanks to all

[LarryG]

While these router fence halves would make excellent stop blocks for the miter and rip fences, I'm less sure they're suitable as a sacrificial fence stand-in for use with a dado set. They're too short in length to provide adequate indexing surface for anything but the smallest workpiece. The gap between them at the blade would completely interrupt the indexing surface, too. Even if the two sections were very precisely aligned, it'd still be all too easy to catch the workpiece on the front edge of the outfeed fence half, as sometimes happens on a router table where the fence gap is generally much smaller.