I wanted to add dust collection to my drill press and I ocassionally need a fence to orient drilling operations. I have a 17" Jet floor model drill press which has a nice table with tee tracks running front to back down each side. So I bought a Rockler Drill Press Fence and modified it to fit my Jet's tee tracks.
| Jet 17's table as I received it. You can see the two tee tracks on each side running front to back. |
| Rear view of the fence installed on my Jet. You can see the star knobs holding the tee bolts in the Jet's tee tack. |
| The fence came with a slot on each side for tee tracks in the Rockler DP Table but that didn't fit the Jet. I had to cut a couple of slots inside the others to fit. The new slots are 5/16" by a littl over 1" wide. |
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Closer look at old and new slots from the bottom of the fence's aluminum frame piecs.
I drilled three 5/16" holes, 3/8" apart, in line with the original slots, and centered 11-1/4" apart to match the Jet's tee tracks.
Then I sawed out and filed the holes into slots so a 5/16" tee bolt would move smoothly from side to side.
I could have just drilled a single 5/16" hole on each side but the slot gives me a little more lee way when moving or removing the fence. |
| View from the top of the aluminum frame piece. |
| Bottom of the fence, you can see the tee bolts sticking through. |
| View as I normally use it. |
| A wider view point. |
