Doug Shepard
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I'm tentatively planning on drilling 3-4 holes from underneath the back edge of my workbench and inserting cross dowels for fixture type knobs to attach a board-mounted Woodrat to the bench. Here's some cross-dowels for illustration http://www.woodpeck.com/crossdowels.html
I'd put these about 3" in from the edge with the bolt hole about 2" up from the bench bottom, then use threaded rod and star-type knobs to run through the Woodrat mounting board and into the bench. My question is what to use underneath the cross dowels as some sort of sleeve to hold it from slipping out of the hole yet still allow screwdriver access in case it needs to be adjusted into alignment with the holes from the back edge of the bench. Glue a wooden dowel in underneath the cross-dowel, then carefully drill through it with a smaller Forstner drill? Glue a metal or plastic sleeve underneath it? I've wondered if maybe I should just embed standard square nuts into a slot as I glue the workbench top together, but since I wont be able to drill the holes from the back edge of the bench until after the top and hardwood edging is glued together, getting exact alignment with that seems a bit risky. I think the cross-dowel would work better, but thought I'd throw this out there for ideas.
I'd put these about 3" in from the edge with the bolt hole about 2" up from the bench bottom, then use threaded rod and star-type knobs to run through the Woodrat mounting board and into the bench. My question is what to use underneath the cross dowels as some sort of sleeve to hold it from slipping out of the hole yet still allow screwdriver access in case it needs to be adjusted into alignment with the holes from the back edge of the bench. Glue a wooden dowel in underneath the cross-dowel, then carefully drill through it with a smaller Forstner drill? Glue a metal or plastic sleeve underneath it? I've wondered if maybe I should just embed standard square nuts into a slot as I glue the workbench top together, but since I wont be able to drill the holes from the back edge of the bench until after the top and hardwood edging is glued together, getting exact alignment with that seems a bit risky. I think the cross-dowel would work better, but thought I'd throw this out there for ideas.