I haven't yet made any holes for clamping things to the pantorouter
table and that's because I'm still not sure what way to clamp on there I've
actually come up with quite a few solutions over the years here's some of
them this is the clamp I came up with for the original pantry router and
basically this goes through a hole in the table and then this tightens down
and actually this Acme thread and this part here actually just cut out of a
little C-clamp out of a really cheap one that works quite well. Then I came up
with this thing which is just a toggle drill press clamp and that attaches to a
metal pantorouter the main problem with this one is it doesn't have enough
clamping force because sometimes the stock can really get pushed aside if you
slipped with a router then I've used this welding clamp with my pantorouter XL
the advantage of that one is it's relatively easy to get through a small
hole in the table and this allows me to climb stuff very securely to the table I
brought this drill press clamp and that one again screws to the table although
it needs several screw holes and I've often had it slipped like this a little
bit plus it doesn't have enough reach this way so I can't really get to the
middle of the stock then there's a Labour clamp like this and that fits in
a slot in the metal pantorouter and these work really well although annoyingly
when you move the flap up sometimes just with vibration it falls down on its own
and the other problem with them is you can't really put it on this way and of
course it requires a slotted table although the way the bottom of these is
shape you could put them in a relatively small hole in the table and then clamp
stuff to the table like this and the advantage of something like this over
for instance something like this or like this is that it applies the counter
pressure right below where your plight of pressure above so it doesn't have a
tendency to warp the table like this one does because as you push down here it
pull up here and push us down here and that
bends the table a little bit then microjig sent me some of these dovetail
clamps and this is a very clever system goes into dovetails in a piece of
plywood like this and you can crank down on these pretty hard without breaking
the dovetail in here because that's integral not like having some kind of
T-track which I always kind of feel there's a risk of the T track just
getting pulled out as you tighten one of these clamps but if you ever end up with
a situation were the stuff that you're clamping has cavity right above the
dovetail and then you tighten it down
it's relatively easy to bust the table so I'm a bit wary of that and I've also
made this block which helps to hold one of these clamps in place on my slot
mortiser so I can stick that in a relatively small hole in here turn that
around put this block under and now that holds the clamp in place but the space
underneath the pantorouter table is not as suitable for that and then there's this
adjustable C clamp which have adopted for using on my slot mortiser it's quite
an oddball clamp and I bought it on sale when it was discontinued so I can't
really recommend that so I'm now inclined to make something
like this again and I've got various candidates for screws that I could use
for this this is for edge clamping I've never actually used it I really don't
use pipe clamps very much this came off of a busted hand miter saw this off of
some kind of power tool but I think I'll use this part which is a busted bar
clamp and I know this doesn't have any other use at all
and I've carefully whittled out this shape so that now this clamp fits nicely
in there
so this dowel along with the threaded rod helps to keep this part aligned and
I can put this in the regular position or if I need to I can make it reach out
a little bit further
this screw goes through this hole in the clamp and that keeps it from falling out
I didn't want to drill holes in a table yet because those depend on how the
fence goes on there and so I went back to a computer and revised the design of
the fence and this is what I've got and the hole pattern that goes with us is
here but first I'll make the fence and I've already laid that out on this piece
of plywood
and then I can use that exact same fence as a fence for cutting mortises
so that completes this pantorouter build I still want to put varnish on it but I
won't be painting it because I tried different combinations of green parts
and not green parts and CAD and it just ended up looking gaudy and I certainly
don't want to paint the whole thing