Builder's itch T24
Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2015 3:30 am
I haven't built much lately, but I have a bunch of 9 mm (3/8") fir ply left over, and two DeltaLite II 2510 kicking about, so I figured I'd build two T24-s just for the heck of it. I'm fully aware that pretty much everything about this build will be a bit cowboy, but if they turn out OK I might find some use for them.
I have previously built:
1 O12TB
2 Jack 10
2 DR250
2 16" Titan 39.
This is the first build where I use my new mobile table saw, a Metabo TS 254.
Other tools include brad nailer and pin nailer. I had to get the pin nailer through ShipTo from Amazon. It's just not a known tool here in Sweden.
Also a jig saw and a few clamps. Unfortunately I've lent my Makita track saw to a friend who's redoing his kitchen. The table saw is a bit impractical for large pieces, and for some reason Metabo has 1/2" T-tracks rather than standard 3/4" mitre tracks, which makes it harder to build a good panel sled.
One part where I'm not following build instructions is regarding braces. I chose to fix them to the inner panel before assembly. This requires a fair bit of meticulous measurement, but makes putting them in place much easier as I can brad them in place from both sides.
Since I have a pair of braces in every place, I have cut them from two pieces of ply pin nailed to each other. That way I'm sure they are identically shaped which helps with straight assembly. Prying them apart is painless; having no ridges, the pins don't have much pulling power.
To fix the braces I took two strips of scrap plywood, one for each side. I covered them with blue painter's tape and clamped them on either side of where the brace should be. After that I applied the glue on the edge of the brace and put it in place. It was then simple to brad them from underneath, as I had carefully drawn the centre line of the brace on the other side.
I've also chosen a slightly different order for assembling the panels. Here's panel 1, 3 and 4 in place with braces on 3 and 4:
For some reason I figured I'd brace panel 1 later. That would have been OK, if I hadn't been so hot putting panel 5 in place. That made brad nailing a bit more finicky.
The reason I chose that order was to give me easy access to put the access panel flanges in place. Here they are laid out for verification prior to glueing:
In retrospect I think I should have started with the flanges simply because that offers a good jig for the placement of the surrounding panels, but it turned out quite well anyway.
I've since attached braces to panels 1, 2 and 6. When measuring them I made sure that the side panels will have about 3 mm (1/8") overhang (actually the thickness of the long edge of my square). I'll route that off once everything is glued together.
I have previously built:
1 O12TB
2 Jack 10
2 DR250
2 16" Titan 39.
This is the first build where I use my new mobile table saw, a Metabo TS 254.
Other tools include brad nailer and pin nailer. I had to get the pin nailer through ShipTo from Amazon. It's just not a known tool here in Sweden.
Also a jig saw and a few clamps. Unfortunately I've lent my Makita track saw to a friend who's redoing his kitchen. The table saw is a bit impractical for large pieces, and for some reason Metabo has 1/2" T-tracks rather than standard 3/4" mitre tracks, which makes it harder to build a good panel sled.
One part where I'm not following build instructions is regarding braces. I chose to fix them to the inner panel before assembly. This requires a fair bit of meticulous measurement, but makes putting them in place much easier as I can brad them in place from both sides.
Since I have a pair of braces in every place, I have cut them from two pieces of ply pin nailed to each other. That way I'm sure they are identically shaped which helps with straight assembly. Prying them apart is painless; having no ridges, the pins don't have much pulling power.
To fix the braces I took two strips of scrap plywood, one for each side. I covered them with blue painter's tape and clamped them on either side of where the brace should be. After that I applied the glue on the edge of the brace and put it in place. It was then simple to brad them from underneath, as I had carefully drawn the centre line of the brace on the other side.
I've also chosen a slightly different order for assembling the panels. Here's panel 1, 3 and 4 in place with braces on 3 and 4:
For some reason I figured I'd brace panel 1 later. That would have been OK, if I hadn't been so hot putting panel 5 in place. That made brad nailing a bit more finicky.
The reason I chose that order was to give me easy access to put the access panel flanges in place. Here they are laid out for verification prior to glueing:
In retrospect I think I should have started with the flanges simply because that offers a good jig for the placement of the surrounding panels, but it turned out quite well anyway.
I've since attached braces to panels 1, 2 and 6. When measuring them I made sure that the side panels will have about 3 mm (1/8") overhang (actually the thickness of the long edge of my square). I'll route that off once everything is glued together.