<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>I think this is about the best picture I have of the track system. The rails are nothing but 1.5" X 1.5" X 1/8" steel angle. The wheels are replacement wheels for a sliding glass door from a home improvement store. Very simple and works very well. Both the X and Y direction tracks are designed this way.</div><div><br></div><div><img id="c236447c-a08c-4aff-9256-c3ccf91740f4" height="480" width="640" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:7B055185-4B82-4102-AE96-EB29C1B2928D"></div><div><br></div><div>While I really love my jig and it works very well, I don't know that it has any advantages over the Nossaman hover drill press jig for drilling pin blocks. If I were to do it again and wasn't drilling plates at all, I'd build the Nossaman hover drill press jig - works at least as well, is much easier to build, less expensive and easier to store. If you are drilling plates for vertical hitch pins, I guess my rig does have some advantage for that.</div><div><br></div><div>Terry Farrell</div><br><div><div>On Mar 7, 2013, at 9:39 PM, Euphonious Thumpe wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div>So, where did you get the tracks, please? (And would you use them again, or some others???)<br><br>Thumpe</div></td></tr></tbody></table> <div id="_origMsg_">
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<td valign="top" style="font:inherit;">Okay, fair enough. FWIW, I don't move the piano with my overhead drill press - the drill press is on two tracks - both X and Y axis - and it moves quite easily, so that the drill bit can find and align with the existing hole very easy.<br><br>Terry Farrell<br><br>On Mar 7, 2013, at 8:49 PM, Jim Ialeggio wrote:<br><br>> Terry wrote:<br>> <I'm curious, why the second pass by hand? Seems to me that a bit in a stable drill press will always give more consistent results.<br>> <br>> I find lining the drill rig in the hovercraft scenario, or moving the whole piano in your technique, for me, awkward and difficult to get the work in a position where the bit will enter exactly as it did the first time without deflecting, or fighting with piano to find the alignment spot. Takes me a long time and is frustrating.<br>> <br>> Obviously you commune differently with your
set up, as Ron does with his...but as they say...different folks, different strokes.<br>> <br>> I find the variability in how we all approach the same tasks amazing. What works for one, can drive another guy nuts...of course leaving the first guy scratching his head wondering where the second guy left his brains.<br>> <br>> Jim Ialeggio<br>> <br>> -- <br>> Jim Ialeggio <br>> <a ymailto="mailto:jim@grandpianosolutions.com" href="javascript:return">jim@grandpianosolutions.com</a><br>> 978 425-9026<br>> Shirley Center, MA<br>> <br><br></td>
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