A makeshift T-Track in the WorkCentre?

**I_wanna_Shed** · 30th December 2006, 11:46 PM

Hi All,

I'm thinking of some jigs I can make for my WorkCentre 2000. The barrier I keep coming up against is the lack of a standard T-Track to make things easier for me. One way I have come around this so far is to make rails underneath my crosscut sled that ride on the outer edges of the table, which are parallel to the blade.

But... has anyone made a jig, which has something like a strip of plastic cutting board underneath, cut to width and depth to fit snuggly into the protractor slots? It would be about 5mm wide (or however wide the slot is - not including the patterned bit where you lift the protractor out) and a few inches long (trial and error would need to be done for the length - short enough to allow maximum travel, but long enough to provide stability and squareness). As you can't slide it right up to the edge of the table the jig could not travel very far, but I'm hoping it would still be good for smaller jigs such as for finger box jigs?

Am I on a right path here, has anyone done this or done similiar? Without looking at the Triton metal pieces that ride in these slots, I'm assuming that if I could get some, they would be too difficult to fit onto jigs, or would be quicker/easier to try my above idea.

Cheers,
Nathan.

**Stuart** · 30th December 2006, 11:54 PM

Yes, and no. It has been tried here on the BB before, but not very successfully from memory.

The T track issue is one of the major bugbears of the Triton WC. The next model was going to incorporate that in the solid tabletop as far as I know, but it never got beyond the draughting table.

**Barry_White** · 31st December 2006, 12:38 AM

I have built two jigs so far using the plastic cutting boards. A tenon jig and a mitre jig and they work very successfully. My next one that I am going to make is the one that Don Barton (DPB) made. I have nutted out how to make it work on the Triton and have got most of the materials. I just have to get around to making it.

This is the thread with the Mitre Jig. My post is down further in the thread.

http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com...ight=Mitre+Jig

This is the thread with the Tenon Jig although some of the pictures have been removed. I think this could have happened with an upgrade of the forum.

http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com...ight=tenon+jig

**I_wanna_Shed** · 31st December 2006, 10:34 AM

Thanks Bazza,

Looks like you have done exactly what I was thinking. My first jig will be one for cutting finger joints, then I will make up a mitre joint jig like in your thread above.

Thanks for pointing me towards your posts!

Cheers,
Nathan.

**Barry_White** · 31st December 2006, 03:37 PM

Originally Posted by I_wanna_Shed

Thanks Bazza,

Looks like you have done exactly what I was thinking. My first jig will be one for cutting finger joints, then I will make up a mitre joint jig like in your thread above.

Thanks for pointing me towards your posts!

Cheers,
Nathan.

Hi Nathan

One important thing is to have the strip of bread board plastic in a groove other wise it is too flexible.

**I_wanna_Shed** · 31st December 2006, 04:06 PM

Originally Posted by Barry_White

Hi Nathan

One important thing is to have the strip of bread board plastic in a groove other wise it is too flexible.

Thanks Barry,

I thought that may have been the reason for the groove, so will make sure I make one.

Nathan.

**Carry Pine** · 3rd January 2007, 08:08 AM

Hi Nathan,

I have made a few jigs for the Triton table and used hardwood strips for the runners. I find it works most accurately if you make a jig that uses 2 runners (no wobble). I made up a cross cut sliding thing for accurate work which could be adapted for mitres.
I took one of the triton channels out in a vain attempt to fit one of the factory made slots but all to no avail.

Graham

**I_wanna_Shed** · 4th January 2007, 07:30 AM

Thanks Graham,

Hopefully this weekend I'll be in the shed trying these things out.

Nathan.

**Big Shed** · 4th January 2007, 11:39 AM

Originally Posted by Barry_White

This is the thread with the Tenon Jig although some of the pictures have been removed. I think this could have happened with an upgrade of the forum.

http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com...ight=tenon+jig

Bazza, I don't suppose you still have thos pictures? If you do, could you post them again, am interested in doing something similar.

Cheers

Fred

**Barry_White** · 4th January 2007, 07:17 PM

Hi Fred

Attached are the other three pictures that have been removed from that other post.

**Big Shed** · 4th January 2007, 09:19 PM

Thanks Barry.

I had built a tenon jig for my Triton Mk3, sliding over the fence, but recently upgraded to a 2000 and the fence of the 2000 doesn't lend itself to that approach.
I have toyed with the idea of obtaining the slides of the Triton Mitre for the 2000, but don't know whether they are available as a spare part.

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