Page 23 - Router Boss Manual

Index the Socket/Pin Centerlines
Clamp the pattern board in the Router Boss. Turn
on the laser cross hairs and turn the crank handle to
align the cross hairs on the left edge of the workpiece
(as shown at right). Don’t be concerned about getting
the laser exactly centered. Move the cursor on the left
hand side of the machine to read 0” on the front scale
(or push the “zero” button to reset the digital readout to
0.000”).

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Turn the crank handle to position the cross hairs
on the first line. We want this to be slightly less than
half the diameter of our 7/16” dovetail bit (7/16 ÷ 2 =
7/32”). It’s difficult to accurately mark a pencil line to
a 32nd of an inch, so we can compensate for any error
we made in drawing our line. Since we want 6/32”, we
record that as our first pin/socket center reading. (Note:
Although we label the single cut end pins as half-pins,
we are cutting close to a full-width socket.) 2

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