I use a 1" belt sander for rough work and hand file to finish... David I. On 10 Jun 2002 at 16:23, Greg Newell wrote: > Greetings listees, > I've been having consistent trouble in my endeavors to > replace > keytops. I really wish to do a good job at this so if you could share > with me what you do I'd greatly appreciate it. I had tried the > Peterson Jig using essentially two parallel rails to ride a router on > and the key is clamped beneath. The theory is that this will evenly > trim the tops down. Not So! After several sets of disasters that I did > more than twice the work on making them right, I have finally built > Bill Spurlocks jigs to use in conjunction with a rotary planer. This > has been the ticket in the planning department as I have never made a > set of keys quite so even before. > Now I'm at the trimming stage and I am using another of > Bill's (I > think) jigs where a piloted bit comes up through the center of the jig > which is a ever so slightly tapered away from center and covered with > denim material to prevent scratches on the keytop. The key is inverted > and the pilot bearing rides against the side of the key and trims any > overhanging plastic. This is the part I'm having trouble with. It > seems that either I'm not holding the key steady enough or there are > some imperfections in the key that I'm not seeing, or there's stuff on > the table from the last key. I really don't know what it is but I'm > not winding up with a straightly trimmed side. Can anyone suggest a > different method of a different jig? I've been thinking of a 1" belt > sander as trimmer. Anyone ever use one of those for this purpose? Any > and all ideas greatly appreciated. I'm so happy with how the planing > went I don't want to ruin this in the trimming stage. > > Greg Newell > mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net >
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