Milling a T-slot

[Bob Bassett]

Has anyone entertained the thought of trying to use a router to mill a groove in both sides of the BT3K accessory miter slots?

[DUD]

I have a factory on one side, A piece of walnut routed out on the other side. I did it in

place using the fence as a guide. Rod Kirby has the how-to's on a link here on BT3. Bill

[pelligrini]

I think he is talking about making the straight miter slots of a dual-slot table t-slots. I'm not sure if the material in the extrusion is thick enough for the depth of the cut necessary.

[DUD]

In that case, no I don't think it would work. Sorry, Bill

[steve-norrell]

Has anyone entertained the thought of trying to use a router to mill a groove in both sides of the BT3K accessory miter slots?

As noted in the other posts, the metal is not thick enough on the sides of the slots.

I have milled them in wood, but I think the store-bought t-tracks are much better than ones I made so I use them instead. Its much easier to route out (or dado) the groove for the t-track than to make a t-slot.

Good luck, Steve