Making a sofa with your own hands in a home workshop. Assembly. Drawings of a homemade additive router. Part 5
All the details of the sofa are ready and you can start assembling.
The sofa was going to dowels. First, it was necessary to drill holes for assembly in all parts to be joined. To do this, I used a homemade filler router made on the basis of a conventional plunge router.
It is not difficult to make such a device. Drawings for its manufacture can be downloaded from the links. The first - general drawings with a manufacturing sequence and a 3D model for SketchUp. These drawings can be adapted to any suitable router. The second - drawings in addition to the main ones with dimensions for the router DIOLD MEF-1,1
Using this device is easy. Next, I will tell you in detail how to do this using the example of assembling a sofa.
I'll start with the sides of the sofa, and more specifically with the connection of the armrest with the detail b1.
This part is installed in the middle of the armrest. On the router, the corner stop must be set 30 mm from the drilling line in order to get a hole in the middle of the part.
The drilling depth is adjusted using a ruler and a standard stop on the router.
The drilling depth will depend on the length of the dowels. I used 40mm dowels, so I drilled 20mm holes. depth.
I drilled the first hole according to the marking. According to the project detail b1 should be 100 mm from the bottom, and I decided to make the first hole for the dowel 20 mm. from the edge, so I set the markings on the armrest to 120 mm. from the edge.
In order to accurately drill along such a line, a window of transparent plastic is made in the fixture in the corner stop, on which a risk is applied, coinciding with the axis of drilling.
After the first hole is made, a stop is installed in the router platform, which is inserted into the first hole so that the next one can be drilled at exactly the specified distance and thus make a series of holes with the same step. In my device, this size is 32 mm.
In order not to drill unnecessary holes, you need to mark the boundaries of the part.
And then, "walking" along the limiter, a number of holes are made. For this connection, there were six of them.
The second part is 20 mm thick, and for it you need to set the corner stop to 10 mm in order to drill in the middle.
From the edge of the part b1 I planned to make the first hole at 20 mm. This first hole can be drilled as in the first case - at risk, or you can make a stop from a bar and drill with it.
To avoid further confusion during assembly, a mark is made on the lower edge of the part and drilling starts from the lower edge on both sides of the part.
A bar as a stop for drilling is especially convenient when all parts of the project are of the same thickness.
And if the holes can be asymmetrical from different sides of the part, it is imperative to mark the base edge from which the holes will be drilled.
The result is a connection like this.
It is usually convenient to drill into the part all the mounting holes that will be in it so that it can be set aside.
Sometimes it is really more convenient to make only a part of the mounting holes, then return to the part again.
This is the case with the back leg of the sofa.
And in the armrest, it remains to make more holes for attaching the front part of the sofa.
The markings are done in the same way, only you need to take into account that the armrests are installed towards each other, and in the rest of the sequence of drilling holes with a homemade filler is exactly the same as it was on side detail.
More details can be found in video clip.
Download sofa project link.
First part look here.
The second part here.
The third part of this link.
Fourth part look here.
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Last year, the channel had a series of posts on making a bathroom cabinet. Who is interested can see link.
And even earlier, there was a series of articles on making a durable, reliable stool. You can see here.
And more recently it was series about chair making.
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