Drilling Headlight Holes In the Bad Bob Motors Car Bodies Using a Shopsmith In Horizontal Boring Mode
I'm building a batch of cars with headlights and taillights made from dowels glued into holes. The holes have to be evenly spaced and aligned. They don't need to be perfect close is good enough. If I had this to do over, I would have done it differently. If I had thoroughly thought this through, I would have tried to mount the patterns so that I could have drilled multiple holes without moving anything. If everything was uniform, I could setup once and drill all the suitable headlight holes. Turn the block over, reset the stop blocks, and drill all the left headlight holes. The way it worked out, I had to realign and reclamp for every hole. If you are only making one toy, this isn't an issue. If you are making a lot of them, it can add significantly to the time it takes to make the cars. Here are the cars I'm trying to make. Handmade Wooden Toy Cars - Bad Bob Motors - Coupe Handmade Wooden Toy Cars - Bad Bob Motors - Tudor My Shopsmith has a horizontal bori...