Well after about 8 years I thought it was about time to do some of the things I had planned to do when I first build the table.

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First step, holes, and lots of them.

Over the years had drilled and tappet a few holes to hold things down but there was no way I was going to do a 120+ holes through 1” plate freehand.

So one of the heads from my body roller, some RHS offcuts, linearthruster, mount plate a drill and we have some holes.

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After drilling a dozen holes thoughts turned to tapping the holes.

I did not want to mount the tapping head to the ally thruster for fear of bending it so I pinched an idea from the net and built a parallel arm. I then mounted a hydraulic motor to that, machined an adaptor for the tap and now we have some tappet holes.

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Adapted the drill head to the parallel arm and drilled some more holes.


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As I am a lazy basted and found it too hard to push and pull the lever on the control valve to rotate the tap I set up a pneumatic control valve so I only had to flick a switch.


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Had to move the setup around the table a few times and make a couple of other mod`s but eventually it is all done.
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Tony


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