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- From: twl10@ccc.amdahl.com (Tom Littauer)
- Newsgroups: rec.woodworking
- Subject: Re: Magnetic Featherboard
- Keywords: featherboard tablesaw
- Message-ID: <b8TP02Kk2b8M01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 20:27:26 GMT
- References: <1992Nov17.225618.2705@rambo.atlanta.dg.com>
- Reply-To: twl10@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Tom Littauer)
- Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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- In article <1992Nov17.225618.2705@rambo.atlanta.dg.com> wma@atlanta.dg.com (Wayne Akins) writes:
- >Does anyone have experience using a magnetic featherboard
- >on a table saw?
-
- Yes, I thought they'd be a big help.
-
- > The ones I've seen advertised not only
- >hold the board against the fence but also have a *finger*
- >to hold the board down flat to the table top. Do they
- >work?
-
- Sort of. They work fine as long as you've got an iron surface to put them
- on. Unfortunately they don't grip on the throat plate so you can't get one
- very close to the blade - this has caused me to use them less often than I
- imagined I would.
-
- Tom
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