Making a drilling jig

Jan 28, 2009 21 Replies

They won't all be perfect right angles, and they won't all pull up right against the pole. What you really care about is hole-hole spacing (can't assemble it otherwise), approximate centring on the pole centre and consistent depth of the pole half-hoop. The rest either pulls out in the wash as you tighten, or doesn't affect the function. You can live with a small gap between pole and bend (i.e. a slightly obtuse bend), but you care far more about assembly, and about getting the final axis through the centre of the pole and the bolts being at a right angle to this.

I was about to suggest exactly that solution - one half of the pair should have slotted holes.

-- Nige Danton

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