CENPEK 3-in-1 High Precision Jig Dowel Cam Jig Kit Wood Hole Drilling Guide Woodworking Position for DIY Wood working Furniture Repair or Handyman

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Metal bushings included to ensure accurate alignment When drilling for perfectly positioned dowels every time. Ok for my hack since I only need to cut the horizontal shelves, they still seem to be made of solid MDF. If the chip board is poorly made it will break apart when you tighten the CAM nut causing it not to sit straight and this will cause the CAM nut to twist and it will break apart. The meager benefits of cam lock nuts and screws is that they can be driven with a Philips screwdriver, which most consumers have rattling around in a drawer somewhere, and they provide a relatively quick connection method that's low on labor.

Dowelling Jig for Furniture Fast Connecting Cam Fitting

Applications：Can be used for woodworking,Quick Positioning for different thickness, easy to producing joints. Indicators are laser-cut into the stainless steel locating washers, making it easy to position the jig on your centerline and hit your measurements accurately. it clamps very well on the edges but takes a little rigging to setup if you want to place a dowel on the face of the board. Once you've done it a time or two, it's easier to proceed with confidence on the main project pieces. Well built and would have gotten a five star however, as far as accuracy is concerned, it is accurate enough for basic doweling.Made of aluminum alloy 6061, practical, easy to operate and use, wide application range, has a long service life. It needs to be about 4mm deeper than the distance the centerline of the post's hole is from the edge. Finally, the cam is put in with the open side towards the top of the post and given a 180 degree turn with a screwdriver. Or are these joint fixings really only useful for industrial users with computer controlled drilling machines?

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This is a steel insert screwed into one of the sides and then inserted into a clearence hole in the cross member. I am assuming this because the current manufacturers will see their markets shrink and therefore the market will have an excess of the connection system. I have only seen them used in pre-cut furniture that's designed for home assembly, but I knew I could get them at my local home center. If you use it a lot, I would install a sleeve to drill through to make it more durable (like a Kreg Jig for pocket screws). They've been a mainstay of IKEA's flatpack product line for as long as I can remember, although from a design perspective, it seems clear that their benefits are outweighed by their drawbacks.But with a slight change in bookcase design, I can get a good-looking joint with the cam lock, just not a dead flush one. In spite of taking extreme care making the jigs, and making several trial joints in scrap material, the joints still don't align perfectly. The screw is then forced straight when the end user inserts it into the cam lock nut, and this further weakens the point of connection between the screw threads and the mushy particle board fibers. The Levoite jig makes the process of layout and drill into one easy step for single or multiple or offset rows of dowels. The self-centering jig and adjustable fence allow for precise dowel alignment for maximum joint strength.