Rotary vs versatile roller for tumblers at volume?
Doing roughly 300 powder-coated tumblers a month. Currently using the rotary extension and it's fine but setup per item is slow — I'm losing a couple of minutes each time getting the alignme…
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Corner jig for repeatable placement — file and dimensions
Simple thing, big time saver. A corner jig is two strips cut and glued at exactly 90°, positioned so its inner corner sits at a known coordinate on your bed. Then your workflow becomes: set…