New iBox Jig from Incra

**Shedhand** · 7th December 2015, 10:27 AM

Hey all, I'm finally getting back into it. It's been 2 months since my last of 3 surgeries so have been pottering about the man-cave tidying up and making some jigs.
ive made a jig for accurately routing the channel for truss rods in a guitar neck. A sled for the table saw and a complicated finger joint box jig which doesn't work very well

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I decided to make a router table using the plans for the cabinet which is free on the PWS site. I salvaged 4 of 800 X 600 X 32 laminex bench tops edged with hardwood to use for the top then went over to PWS and bought an Incra iBox finger joint jig. Then into Carbatec to buy a Kreg insert and a Triton TRA001 router. Put her all together and after 3 days of reading the iBox instructions, finally got that setup properly and did a test cut. I dint destroy any components and the box joints are perfect. Now I can use all the box kits I bought years ago to make some nice boxes

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Here it is.
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I also bought a Carbatec 15" Thicknesser. Picked it up last Saturday but it's still in trailer because it's too bloody heavy to lift out

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A neighbour has a tractor with a PTO forklift but it's marooned in his shed until his new concrete driveway has cured. So Thursday is the big day. While it's up in the air I'll fit four heavy duty braked castors to it. Can't wait to try it out. There's a few cubes in the shed just pining to be put through it. I'll replace the blades with a Shelix Spiral Cutter in the next month or so so the neighbours won't gripe about the noise.

cheers

**double.d** · 7th December 2015, 03:36 PM

The Incra iBox is a good bit of kit and well worth the asking price. It took a few hours for it to sort me out

but once I complied it was straight forward.

**Shedhand** · 7th December 2015, 03:56 PM

Originally Posted by double.d

The Incra iBox is a good bit of kit and well worth the asking price. It took a few hours for it to sort me out

but once I complied it was straight forward.

Took me a while because my damned brain is so scrambled. I reckon i read each sentence 20 times till it gelled. To many damn pain killers.
Arghh..sure is a nice, well made bit of kit though and worth the money. The wooden clamps are a must though.

**Shedhand** · 7th December 2015, 03:58 PM

Erm, i spose if i leave it upside down it'll eventually fall out.☺

**P.W.H.** · 7th December 2015, 06:48 PM

Oh, you got one of them anti-gravity trailers. I could use one for my quads, the one we have got itself a flat tyre.

Incidentally, the Carbatec thicknesser has two wheels in the base already and the third wheel is in the cabinet.
Works quite well, and it's stable in that configuration. You could save yourself some work and money there -
if you want to.
Going on my recent experience with both a Carbatec jointer and a Carbatec thicknesser I'd say: make sure all
the important bolts are there, and tight. We had trouble with loose bolts simply falling out on both machines.

We got the thicknesser off the trailer with a hoist and tackle because the tractor had a flat battery. The jolly rope
broke when it was still 6" up in the air .... no damage done, thankfully, except for the plywood pallet.

**Shedhand** · 7th December 2015, 07:44 PM

Originally Posted by P.W.H.

Oh, you got one of them anti-gravity trailers. I could use one for my quads, the one we have got itself a flat tyre.

Incidentally, the Carbatec thicknesser has two wheels in the base already and the third wheel is in the cabinet.
Works quite well, and it's stable in that configuration. You could save yourself some work and money there -
if you want to.
Going on my recent experience with both a Carbatec jointer and a Carbatec thicknesser I'd say: make sure all
the important bolts are there, and tight. We had trouble with loose bolts simply falling out on both machines.

We got the thicknesser off the trailer with a hoist and tackle because the tractor had a flat battery. The jolly rope
broke when it was still 6" up in the air .... no damage done, thankfully, except for the plywood pallet.

Ah! Thanks for info re wheels. I didn't realise. I was going to ring Carbatec and ask if the machine is ready for use out of the box. I guess I'll have to check every nut, bolt, washer and nail in it. The cutting depth gauge looks a bit on the flimsy side. I guess there'll be an after-market digital replacement.
cheers!

**P.W.H.** · 8th December 2015, 02:21 PM

Incidentally, the machine is identical to the Grizzly G0453, and you can download an excellent manual for the Grizzly machine.
Some useful info I got from this forum some place

Grizzly has also started putting videos on youtube - there's one on how to retro-fit a spiral cutter head for instance.

**Shedhand** · 8th December 2015, 02:34 PM

Thanks mate. I'll watch the one about fitting a spiral cutter when I get it.
cheers

**Fuzzie** · 8th December 2015, 04:06 PM

Originally Posted by Shedhand

...... and a complicated finger joint box jig which doesn't work very well

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Out of interest what type did you try and build? I have a half made one here that's still a WIP. I couldn't quite bring myself to attempt the all singing all dancing one with gear wheels as a first attempt.

**Shedhand** · 8th December 2015, 04:18 PM

Yep, that's the one. I contacted the guy a few times about what seemed to me to be problems but only got terse replies implying I'm an idiot. Waste of 20 bucks.

**Michael_Mueller** · 8th December 2015, 09:40 PM

If you want a dead simple to make box joint jig look at this one
https://youtu.be/zgyQJ8ZaXpY I made one in an hour or so works good for me.

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