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General Category => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: Strapper_Squared on December 10, 2015, 10:08:09 PM

Title: Tips for Installing Precut Oval Slugs
Post by: Strapper_Squared on December 10, 2015, 10:08:09 PM

Any tips to ensure precut oval slugs are aligned properly?  Thinking about insertingbwithout glue and adjusting until angle is correct, marking the front and back edges with the center line.  I'm slightly worried about gluing in and not having it perfectly aligned.  Maybe this is where 5 min Epoxy comes I handy?

Any other tips/tricks?

Thanks
Scott

Title: Re: Tips for Installing Precut Oval Slugs
Post by: itsallaboutme on December 11, 2015, 07:15:23 AM

Put in hole, align, pry back insert with a scratch awl, glue, trim, finish with a sharp bevel knife lightly or it will chatter.

You can trim it down with a plug cutter or router just as you would a slug.  A razor blade will also work, just not as good an end result.

Title: Re: Tips for Installing Precut Oval Slugs
Post by: Aloarjr810 on December 11, 2015, 08:35:04 AM

To align a oval insert
Place it in the hole close to where it should be lined up.
Take a ink pen and make a heavy ink mark on the center of the  back of your thumb.
Put your fingers in the ball and slide your thumb in the hole and pull straight out.
This makes a ink mark in the hole showing your thumb center.
Take your yellow pencil a mark on the ball where that ink mark is.
Now just rotate the insert and line it up with the yellow mark and it is aligned with your thumb.

Title: Re: Tips for Installing Precut Oval Slugs
Post by: Strapper_Squared on December 11, 2015, 05:27:35 PM

Thanks!

I ordered 29/32 slugs...and apparently they are 29/32 side to side, not front to back...   Way too small!