Plate Bushings

[Norman Barrett]

Hi Newton,

Are you familiar with the trick of clamping a scrap board on the drill press
table, drilling a hole the diamater of the dowel in this scrap board, then
drilling the dowel by pushing it up through the hole?  that works pretty
good.

Norm Barrett

Newton Hunt wrote:

> >
> > I could even send a drawing of the jig that I use on my drill press and
> > on the bandsaw and would be glad to do so if that is what you want.
> snip
>
>
> I am rarely successful in drilling a hole consistently in
> the center of a dowel so I would love to see you jig for
> doing so.
>
> Oh, by the way, I do know everything, but it keeps falling
> out of my basket and gets lost.
>
>                 Newton