Conductor for drilling holes with your own hands: template for assembling furniture
Accurately and qualitatively make holes in the products, made of natural wood, Particleboard, MDF, metal and other materials, allows such a convenient device, as a conductor. Such a device, in particular, actively used by specialists, engaged in the production of furniture. In this case, the conductor can be purchased in series, and do it with your own hands.
Universal slider-type conductor for drilling holes for Euro screws and dowels
Features of a design and kinds
Conductor, essentially, Is a template for drilling holes, which allows you to perform them as accurately as possible. It is also used to create holes, the axis of which is perpendicular to the surface of the part, and for drilling at an angle.
Due to their versatility and simplicity, conductors for drilling holes are actively used in various fields. In particular, in the engineering industry with their help for a long time and successfully perform drilling holes in the workpieces of different configurations and made of different materials. You can not work without a conductor in the furniture industry, where such a device is actively used in the assembly of furniture, installation of fittings and performing a number of other technological operations. Construction is another area, where conductors are widely used. With their help, in particular, perform drilling of holes in building structures. Conductors are also needed for drilling pipes and other tasks.
Even a simple device in the form of a bar with a focus greatly facilitates and speeds up the process of making the same type of holes
Overhead models are most often used as a furniture conductor, made of lightweight materials, to make it easier to manipulate them. You can buy such devices in the factory or make a furniture conductor with your own hands. Qualified furniture specialists may not use a conductor, to qualitatively and precisely drill a hole in the elements of the furniture structure, but for this they must have extensive experience in their field.
The most significant advantage of the conductor is, that with its help qualitative and exact drilling as perpendicular to a surface of a detail, and an inclined hole can be made even by a man, not highly qualified. The use of conductors eliminates the need for complex preliminary calculations and marking the location of future holes, which reduces the complexity of assembling the furniture structure and allows you to perform such work in a shorter period of time. Even a beginner can understand the use of the conductor for drilling under the rails and to solve other technological problems.
Overhead conductor with turret head is suitable for drilling standard holes for rails of any size
Before you buy or make your own homemade conductor, determine, to solve which tasks it is necessary to use it, and based on this data, select its type and design.
Among the conductors for drilling holes by type of design and function, you can find a number of categories.
invoices
These conductors are so called because, that they are placed on the workpiece and fixed on it or simply fixed by hand. With the help of conductors of this type, in particular, perform drilling holes in the chipboard, MDF boards and other flat parts.
rotary
Such templates can be used for this, to make holes in the cylindrical parts. Conductors of this type are equipped with vertical and horizontal axes of rotation, which makes it possible to make holes with them at different angles.
universal
This is a device, which are especially relevant for small series production, where the ability to quickly reconfigure equipment is important, used. The conductor of this type is endowed with such functions.
This universal conductor is designed for drilling holes for minifix, confirm, raffix and door hinge
is overturned
These devices for drilling holes are needed in those cases, when such a technological operation has to be performed in several planes.
Sliding and fastening
The sliding conductor in full accordance with its name does not require fastening: it is simply applied to that part of the surface of the part, where you need to drill a hole. Conductor devices are fixed, although they are more convenient, several restrict the freedom of action of the specialist, which is especially critical when performing drilling work on machines, equipped with only one spindle.
scope of use
Furniture conductors and templates are devices, without which it is practically impossible to do when assembling furniture constructions. The use of conductors avoids the main problem, which occurs when drilling holes, - the entry of the drill into the workpiece at the wrong angle. Correcting this error takes a lot of time and effort, and it is not always possible to fix it at all. Conductor, which is used to drill holes, not only allows you to properly orient the drill at the place of processing, but also does not allow the tool to stray from the given trajectory.
Such devices, as furniture conductors and templates, are also used in production, and when assembling furniture, when the fastening elements need to make holes for fasteners. In such cases the conductor for shkant or the conductor for drilling under confirmat is often used, without which it is not possible to make high-quality holes for mounting. Such a device is indispensable in those cases, when you need to make holes, including at an angle, in thin slabs (in particular, when making holes in particleboard or MDF).
The conductor for oblique openings is irreplaceable at the device of the hidden connections of panels and boards
When using a conductor to drill holes, the process of assembling furniture is simple and fast. Using such a device, drilling holes can be performed at any distance from the edge of the part, regardless of its width.
In modern furniture rails are actively used, which at the same time are quite outdated fasteners. That is why the conductor for shkants (doweling jig) used in the manufacture of furniture. The main difficulty in using such fasteners is, to the axis of the holes, which are performed in mating parts, had a right angle with each other. In accordance, such openings should be located strictly perpendicular to each other. Without the use of such a device, as a conductor for shkants, it is difficult to fulfill them.
The conductor for drilling holes in the tubes will be a very useful device for the home workshop
Furniture production is not the only field, in which conductors are used, designed for drilling holes. Templates are no less often used for that, to drill a hole in the pipe and other parts, having a cylindrical shape. Conductors allow to make qualitative openings even in pipes of small diameter.
The size and principle of operation of modern conductors may be different. Some of the models of such devices are much easier to buy, and some are easy to make with your own hands. In favor of that, to make a furniture conductor for drilling holes with your own hands, says that fact, that serial devices, especially universal purpose, are not cheap.
Homemade conductor devices
Conductors of the simplest design, example, those, which are used for drilling holes for confirmation, are relatively inexpensive, therefore, many craftsmen do not care about their own production and acquire serial models. Meanwhile, there are those, who even tries to make such simple devices with their own hands. The question is, how to make a conductor for drilling with your own hands, often appears and if necessary to drill non-standard holes.
To make a conductor for shkants or a simpler conductor for confirmations, you can use drawings and videos online.
In the manufacture of the conductor will require perfectly accurate drilling of guide holes and hardening of the finished device
For the manufacture of such a device, naturally, you will need his drawings. A minimum set of tools and equipment is also required:
- electric or hand drill;
- set of metalwork tools;
- Bulgarian;
- welding device (for the manufacture of conductor devices of more complex design).
The simplest homemade conductor can be made from improvised means and materials, which are in abundance in most home workshops or garages. The use of such materials, which include pieces of metal fittings, wooden bars, metal plates, etc., Saves a lot on the purchase of a serial model of the device.
Drawings of a homemade conductor for drilling holes for confirmations
Production of a self-made conductor for a drill or single-spindle machine takes place in several stages.
- Square reinforcement section 10 on 10 mm, using a hacksaw on a metal or Bulgarian, it is necessary to cut into segments of the necessary length.
- The centers of the holes, through which drilling will be performed, must be at a distance 8 mm from the edge of the conductor plate. It is at this distance that the center of the chipboard or MDF board is located, in which a hole is drilled.
- The step between the holes on the conductor in accordance with generally accepted furniture standards is 32 mm, the diameter of such holes must be equal 5 mm.
- If you equip a homemade conductor stop, then it will be much more convenient to use such a device. A thick metal plate is required to create such a stop 1 mm and width 25 mm, which is bent at right angles and fixed on the finished conductor device, made of fittings.
- After the structural elements of the homemade conductor are fixed with a clamp, they must be securely connected, using threaded fasteners.
Ready conductor with rotary stops
To minimize the amount of dust, formed when using a homemade conductor, its design can be supplemented with half a plastic bottle. This simplest device can also act as a pallet, in which the shaving formed in the course of drilling will gather.
The method described above allows you to make the simplest homemade conductor, which greatly facilitates and accelerates the process of assembling any furniture design.
