I'm looking for an instruction manual for an old Rockwell dovetail jig, model 5008 type 1, circa 1985. I was lucky enough to find the jig in good shape at a yard sale this weekend, but am baffled by the unique set of adjustment pins and knobs that it has.
Do you have one?
This router jig is not like any of the "newer" Porter Cable ones or any of the Craftsman or other ones I've seen online. Those have brackets in front to line up the edges of the sides and fronts. This one doesn't. The template is held on only in the very back with two knobs and floats free in front, and it has two sets of adjustable pins to guide the drawer parts.
A couple days of searching google did not turn up any copies of the instructions for the model 5008, and poking through the Porter Cable/DeWalt documentation didn't turn up anything similar.
Edited to note: despite one suggested google link, I wasn't able to find anything on the Old Wood Working Machines website. Lots of neat stuff there, but I couldn't find a 5008. Same problem with the Sears archives; nothing comparable.
thanks all,
(Somewhat) Dusty and Lefty
Do you have one?
This router jig is not like any of the "newer" Porter Cable ones or any of the Craftsman or other ones I've seen online. Those have brackets in front to line up the edges of the sides and fronts. This one doesn't. The template is held on only in the very back with two knobs and floats free in front, and it has two sets of adjustable pins to guide the drawer parts.
A couple days of searching google did not turn up any copies of the instructions for the model 5008, and poking through the Porter Cable/DeWalt documentation didn't turn up anything similar.
Edited to note: despite one suggested google link, I wasn't able to find anything on the Old Wood Working Machines website. Lots of neat stuff there, but I couldn't find a 5008. Same problem with the Sears archives; nothing comparable.
thanks all,
(Somewhat) Dusty and Lefty
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