After receiving a lot of good recommendations and techniques I adapted one clamping jig with space stopper pin and put my own evolution of that which a local machine shop owner, apprenticed in Austria with a degree in mechanical engineer and metallurgy, produce for me from my drawing and the chunk of hard brass that I took in. He said he would have to anneal it to settle it down before proceeding further and then recommended acquisition of bushings to better guide the drill. COVID and Wx delays set the production schedule back almost a month but he called this morning saying he had the bushings and we discussed his commencement of the new "toy" for this boy. The photos make it pretty well self explanatory.
The center guide groove is for my 1/64" x 1/16" brass strips for the shroud chain plates for my BN MS2130. Drilling with a #28 bit is through the first bushing and then a stopping pin feels out and drops into the hole in the second bushing with the spacing that I needed. With prior experimentation and frustrations I decided to bite the cost bullet and pro
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There are less expensive ways that many SoS members use but with my eyesight and other challenges I was not able to consistently receive the results that I wanted . . . at least for these parts of the schooner . . thinking "it doesn't cost, it pays".
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