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TREND DC400 Manual

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DC400
PATENT NO. US 6,032,706
INTERNATIONAL PATENT APPLIED FOR

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  • Page 1 DC400 PATENT NO. US 6,032,706 INTERNATIONAL PATENT APPLIED FOR...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    DC400 TECHNICAL DATA Dear Customer Thank you for purchasing this Trend product, we Dovetail size Variable hope you enjoy many years of creative and productive use. Max. workpiece width 400mm Please remember to return your guarantee card Workpiece thickness: within 28 days of purchase.

  • Page 3: Safety

    DC400 SAFETY and balance at all times. Do not use recommended when working awkward or uncomfortable hand outdoors. Wear protective hair WARNING: positions. covering to contain long hair. Observe the safety regulations in the 17. Don’t abuse the cable. Never carry 5.
  • Page 4 15. All fastening screws and nuts should be adhered to. Recommended speeds 4. When using a template guide bush, be tightened using the appropriate are shown in the Trend Routing ensure there is sufficient clearance spanner or key and to the torque Catalogue and/or website.

  • Page 5: Items Enclosed

    DC400 ITEMS ENCLOSED ITEMS REQUIRED ■ 1/4” plunge router. ■ Hand tools. Ref. UNIBASE (for certain makes and models of router)

  • Page 6: Description Of Parts

    DC400 DESCRIPTION OF PARTS Jig body Rear guide rail Front guide rail Window Knob Horizontal clamp bar Side fence Vertical clamp bar Lapped dovetail (half blind) pin guide Tail guides 7° through dovetail pin guide Lapped pin stop Guide bush 11.1mm Ø...

  • Page 7: Preparation

    DC400 PREPARATION Mounting Instructions To make a ‘sub base’, cut 12mm or 19mm plywood or M.D.F. board to the dimensions shown below. Drill four 8mm holes in the positions shown and counter sink them. Attach the jig with the four mounting bench screws supplied.

  • Page 8: Clamping Arrangement

    DC400 CLAMPING ARRANGEMENT Vertical Clamp By drawing the clamp tube back inside one The jig has two independent parallel clamping channel, you can clamp against the opposite systems. The work piece thickness range of channel. These two channels, ‘FRONT’ and both clamping systems is from 6.3mm up to...
  • Page 9 DC400 TOP VIEW Work Piece Alignment Always clamp a work piece with one edge tight Horizontal Workpiece up against the side fence, and the end firmly in contact with the underside of all the guide fingers. As a general rule, mount your work piece at the left hand end of the jig.

  • Page 10: Assembly

    DC400 ASSEMBLY Installing Guide Fingers Before installing a guide finger, make sure the Guide Fingers and Guide Rails guide finger and the guide rail are clean and free The guide fingers and guide rails provide of waste. Hold the guide finger at a 30° angle,...
  • Page 11 Clean out waste in the guide rail with a brush, compressed air, or by blowing it out. Remove hardened resin from the jig with Trend Resin Cleaner®. Through Dovetail Tails Remove resin build up from the guide fingers by washing in hot soapy water and a soft cloth.

  • Page 12: Waste Collection

    DC400 Waste Collection The waste collection system will remove most of the wood chips and dust created. Positioning Window To remove the window, press down on the top surface of the window, at the same time pulling it Install the window towards you, until it snaps out from under the this way if you don’t...

  • Page 13: Guide Bush

    DC400 Optional Waste Collection Guide Bush Accessory Ref. DC400/01 The 11.1mm diameter guide bush is supplied with the jig. It attaches to the base of your router The optional waste collection kit includes a and makes contact with the jig’s guide surfaces...

  • Page 14: Setting Up The Router

    If the router rocks on the guide rails, or if your router does not span the jig mouth, you will need to install a sub base, such as the Trend universal sub base Ref. UNIBASE (see opposite page) Fit a fine height adjuster if available, as this will make it easier to adjust the height accurately.

  • Page 15: Dovetail Cutters

    DC400 Through Dovetails Dovetail Cutters The range of five cutters can be used to create The dovetail cutters, guide fingers and the jig are five different through dovetail pin profiles. This all geometrically related. means that all through dovetail pin work pieces...
  • Page 16 DC400 Lapped (Half Blind) Dovetails The range of five cutters is used to create five different lapped dovetail pin and tail depths. This also means that all lapped dovetail tail work pieces can be mounted in the same fixed position in the jig (the front channel). It also means the jig does not require any adjustment for dovetail size or work piece thickness.

  • Page 17: Operation Making A Drawer

    DC400 OPERATION Making a Drawer Through Dovetails The exercise in this manual takes you through Use through dovetails to join the drawer sides to the process of constructing a basic drawer. the drawer back. Two types of dovetails are used in this drawer...
  • Page 18 DC400 You will need Marking Work Pieces ■ One 7° dovetail cutter. Cut the work pieces to size and lay them out the way they will assemble into a drawer. Mark the ■ One straight cutter. insides, the outsides, the front, sides and rear, ■...
  • Page 19 DC400 LAPPED DOVETAILS OVERVIEW Work Piece Orientation Lapped dovetail work pieces must be correctly You will need oriented for clamping in the jig. Imagine the joint ■ Lapped dovetail pin guides. is assembled in this position (1) relative to the jig.

  • Page 20: Lapped Dovetails

    DC400 LAPPED DOVETAILS STEP BY STEP STEP 3 - Clamp the tail piece STEP 1 - Select the dovetail cutter (Drawer Side) Select a dovetail cutter length that’s at least Clamp the tail piece: 2.2mm less than the thickness of the drawer ■...
  • Page 21 DC400 STEP 6 - Clamp the pin piece STEP 4 - Routing the tail piece ■ Take a first cut right across the width of the (Drawer Front) tailpiece from left to right. Keep the guide Clamp the pin piece: bush in contact with the front guide rail at all ■...
  • Page 22 Install from below. 3. Install the component pin piece with the correct projection as shown in the DC400 manual for half blind joints Rules for Adjusting Joint Fit 4. Slide the nut up against the pin piece and Adjust the cutter up or down for the correct joint fit tighten the screw.

  • Page 23: Through Dovetails

    DC400 THROUGH DOVETAILS Work Piece Orientation OVERVIEW Through dovetail work pieces must be correctly oriented for clamping in the jig. Imagine the joint You will need is assembled in this position relative to the jig. Swing the tail piece down 90°. This shows you ■...
  • Page 24 DC400 THROUGH DOVETAILS STEP BY STEP 2 - Install the tail guides STEP Install a row of tail guides on the guide rail. Install the first tail guide STEP 1 - Select the dovetail cutter 2.5mm or 5mm away from the reference mark.
  • Page 25 DC400 STEP 3 - Clamp the tail piece STEP 4 - Routing the tail piece (Drawer Side) Using the dovetail cutter and working from left to right, rout in between the forks, using gentle Clamp the tail piece: pressure against the guide fingers. Reduce the ■...
  • Page 26 DC400 DC400 STEP 6 - Clamp the pin piece STEP 8 - Routing the pin piece (drawer back) (drawer back) Working from left to right, take roughing cuts to Clamp the tail piece: remove most of the waste, then rout along the ■...

  • Page 27: Advanced Joinery

    DC400 ADVANCED JOINERY The Trend jig is capable of much more than dovetails. Exercise your creativity to find new ways of putting the jig to work. The ideas on the following pages are meant to prompt you in the right direction, rather than provide you with detailed comprehensive instructions.
  • Page 28 15.8mm wide based on 25mm guide finger the left side of a half blind pin guide, make a spacing. You will need a Trend 8.9mm straight pencil mark on the guide rail, move the pin box joint cutter Ref. 3/45. When you’re cutting...
  • Page 29 DC400 Shadow Through Dovetails Shadow dovetails are especially easy on the DC400 jig because the incremental guide finger positioning is uniform and always fully repeatable. They are made the same way as conventional dovetails, but in two steps, using a combination of lighter and darker wood.
  • Page 30 DC400 Asymmetrical Dovetail Layouts Provided a guide finger layout is symmetrical about the centreline of the work piece, you can This is a use the same layout at both ends of a work symmetrical layout. piece (for example, both ends of a drawer front).

  • Page 31: Advanced Tips

    DC400 ADVANCED TIPS problem. Simply try different layouts, and add or remove pins until you achieve an attractive How To Vary Pin Width layout. You can make one pin thicker by 2.5mm. you can make an asymmetrical layout, or you The guide fingers normally cut 12.7mm x 6.3mm...
  • Page 32 DC400 How To Cut Joints With Different Width left to right. Then break through to the back of the socket on the left side, and rout across the Work Pieces back of the socket from left to right. Be very Sometimes a pin piece is a different width to the careful when back cutting.

  • Page 33: Maintenance

    Dust spout size rust protector on ball bearing guides. Diameter 11.3mm x 99° 25.4mm & 57mm Ref. 31/31 Lubrication Ref. DC400/01 Diameter 11.3mm x 101° ■ Your jig requires no additional lubrication. Ref. 31/32 Pin Dovetail Diameter 11.3mm x 104°...
  • Page 34 DC400 DC400 SPARE PARTS LIST v2.0 12 2006 Qty. Desc. Ref. Dovetail Cutter 7° x 11mm Dia 31/30 Two Flute 8.0mm Dia x 26mm Cut 3/43 Common Tail Guide Set (5pcs) DC400/03 Lapped Dovetail Guide Set (5pcs) DC400/04 Tail Guide Spacer...
  • Page 35 DC400 DC400 SPARE PARTS LIST v2.0 12 2006 Qty. Desc. Ref. ACCESSORY CUTTERS Straight Cutter 7.9mm Dia x 26mm 3/42 Straight Cutter 8.1mm Dia x 26mm 3/44 Straight Cutter 8.9mm Dia x 26mm 3/45 7 Piece Dovetail Centre Cutter Set...

  • Page 36: Spare Parts Diagram

    DC400 SPARE PARTS DIAGRAM V2.0 12/2006 -35-...

  • Page 37: Trouble Shooting

    DC400 TROUBLE SHOOTING Fault Cause Remedy ■ One work piece was not ■ Keep the jig clean and free Dovetails are a consistent, progressively looser (or tighter) parallel with the guide rail. of excessive wood waste. fit across the width of the work ■...
  • Page 38 DC400 Fault Cause Remedy ■ A guide finger is not seated ■ Remove the guide finger. The bottoms of the sockets are uneven. horizontally and the router Clean waste off the guide base is bumping over it. finger and the guide rail, and replace the guide finger.
  • Page 39 ■ Oversize straight cutter. ■ Install undersize Trend straight cutter. ■ Use only Trend cutters with a precision guide bush. Other cutters may not work with the jig. ■ Oversize guide bush. ■ Install a precision 11.1mm Through dovetail joint is tight fit.

  • Page 40: Index Strip Adjustment

    DC400 INDEX STRIP ADJUSTMENT Can the index strip get too loose? If you make too many adjustments, the index The Index Strip strip may get too loose. Remove the guide rail from the jig and carefully reset the crimp with a The index strip determines the position of the blunt tool.
  • Page 41 DC400 Notes -40-...
  • Page 42 WWW: _________________www.trend-uk.com RECYCLABLE © Copyright Trend 2006. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form without prior permission. Our policy of continuous improvement means that specifications may change without notice. Trend Machinery and Cutting Tools...

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