Bore operation makes ovals

[mpfreivald (Matt Freivald)]

I bought a couple extra long 1/8 and 1/4 endmills for exactly this reason. I like to be at least able to make holes/markings in the factory board.

However, you might find that you get the same Z travel if you put a wasteboard on top of the factory board, and just raise the router in the mount a bit. You have about two inches or so that you can raise or lower the router in the mount for different setups.

I recently posted photos of my setup here (hopefully linky-link works):

Rockler T-tracks - Anyone use these?

Close up of t-track and MDF spoilboard: [image] Note the 2x4 improvised clamp on the front. The spindle goes out past the front edge of the machine a few inches. This allows me to mill the edges of stock up to 3 plus feet in length and/or width. [image] So far my experiments in doing so have been a bit spotty, but here is an example: [image] [image]