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big daddy:
the bottom of my cp already has some blocks glued/screwed into it to use to "lock" my cp top down to the cp base.  Because of that I don't have room to use a regular router to route on my squares in the bottom of the cp in order to recess the joysticks.  Someone suggested chiseling out the area I need (it's mdf), but I'm not sure I'm comfortable with that.

Can I use a dremel + router bit + dremel depth-guage to route out this space?  It looks like it'd work, but I'm not sure about the power of those dremels and the router bit is really small.  Will this thing be adequate to route out the areas I need to recess?  I'm needing to recess about 1/4 inch (in 3/4 inch MDF)

_Iz-:
It might work. Try it on a piece of scrap first. When you do the actual piece, make sure you start in the center and work your way out to the outer edges of your recess.

neuromancer:
I've used a dremel in the optional router base to cut grooves in aluminum -- MDF should be a snap.

The trick is no to try to take the entire depth in one cut. For the aluminum I used about 1/64 of an inch at a time. For MDF maybe around 1/8". I don't know. The nice thing about joystick recesses is they don't need to be perfect.

Bob

_Iz-:

--- Quote from: neuromancer on November 11, 2004, 04:41:10 pm ---I've used a dremel in the optional router base to cut grooves in aluminum -- MDF should be a snap.

The trick is no to try to take the entire depth in one cut. For the aluminum I used about 1/64 of an inch at a time. For MDF maybe around 1/8". I don't know. The nice thing about joystick recesses is they don't need to be perfect.

Bob

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Unless the dremel base is significantly larger than the joystick recess you'd need to make the entire depth of the cutout in one pass or you don't have a continuous surface to rest the dremel on for the successive passes.

TOK:
I just use a dremel to route out a spots in my 3/4" MDF panel for the joystick bolts/top plates to flush mount. It worked great. My overall depth was 5mm, I did it 2.5mm at a time with the dremel adaptor and drywall bit.

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