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I received a featherboard jig for X-mas that I was going to use on my BTS10S (10" portable table saw) and also my Ryobi router table, only to find that everyone else uses the standard 3/4" x 3/8" T- slot except Ryobi. Does anyone know where I can buy accessories for these slots, or at least the slide inserts?
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When I had my BT10, I made my own out of UHMW or maple. When I go my BT3100 it was very nice to have standard slots in the accessory Miter Slot Table.
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Making, or buying a featherboard itself is not a problem, I'm just wondering if anyone knows where to get the post that fits that slot?Comment
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That's what I made out of UHMW or maple. That adapter that fits into the slot and provides the friction to hold the featherboard in place. I got the idea from an aluminum one that I saw somewhere. It used a 1/4" flat head screw countersunk into the bottom of a block that was split from one end up to the hole so that tightening the nut would cause the screw head to expand the block a bit and bind it in the slot. Cut the block so that it is a very close fit in the slot so that it doesn't need much expansion to bind in the slot. I pinned the screw slot in the block to keep it from turning. Use a screw that is long enough to reach through your featherboard and hold the know for tightening.
HTH
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Jerry has gien you a solution. You can use either UHMV as he decribed or Highland Woodworking sells phonelic strips to use in mitre slots. They are oversize for a 3/4" slot. If you use UHMV, I would cut it slightly over also and take it down to "just right" with a card scraper.
I build most of my mitre gauges and mitre slots at this point of the game as I end up with exactly "what I want" instead of what someone un-be-known to me decides I need. ha.. ha...
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Wow, you guys are great. I'm going to make a few up this evening. Thanks and have a great New Year!
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Since there are a couple of bts10s owners on this thread, I thought I'd ask... Does the throat plate from the bts15 fit the bts10s? If so, then I could attach hardwood underneath it -- routed to fit flush in the opening -- and get some semblance of a zero clearance throat plate. I thought I'd read that the bts15 and bts10s were basically the same.
Sorry to hijack the thread,
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