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Hey, the little stops are just feature to save time, so you don't have to always mark out the domino positions near the edge of the work. I cant remember the exact dim off the top of my head but can check for you.
To cut vertically, (ie into the face of the work) you position the domino machine up with the reference plate set against the edge of the work. There is a plastic attachment that screws onto the back of it to keep it vertical
The dims you listed refer to some presets that the domino has built in, but you can manually set it to any dim from 6mm up. I've always wondered why the presets don't correspond with normal sheet thicknesses, it would save so much time. Generally i try to get the mortice exactly in the center of the material, but its hard to set the depth scale perfectly by eye. But usually it doesn't matter too much because you make sure the reference plate of the domino is working to the same side for both things you are trying to join.
As someone who has had to assemble the CNC domino hybrid designs you're trying to achieve, i wouldn't really recommend it as a system as you spend ages trying to transfer he domino position onto the edges. Far easier IMO to use the CNC to cut a full thickness rebate ? housing joint into the material.
Hope thats helpful!
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I've had a domino since release date sometime around 2005 I think. Made lots of furniture with it. I did at one point find the measurements online to set the fence to half the material width rather than having to work from the reference edge all the time which was useful. Can't seem to find it at he moment though.
In the first iteration those tabs were the same as the ones on the wings in the photo and you can set them within a fraction of a mm because they are fixed in concentric grub screw things.
Why not either do both parts with cnc or both parts with the domino?
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Sorry, didn't reply to you to say yes that's helpful. I think I've got my head around how the Domino works now, from your post and some reading around and asking silly questions on the festool owners forum. You're right, it's becoming apparent that using both CNC and Domino could be a headache and I may well revert to a Dado or butt joints held in place with 2-block knock down fixings. It should be a more forgiving system and I think I'll be able to hide all the blocks pretty well.
Airhead
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Any Domino owners in the house that can tell me about these side stops in the image below? As I understand it (could be wrong) you can use these to set the mortice a fixed distance from the panel corner? Is that distance fixed and if so what is it? I can't seem to see this in the instruction manual (I don't own a Domino cutter)
Also, if cutting horizontally, how is the mortice vertical position set? The manual seems to say:
Which would suggest on an 18mm board the mortice would have to be either 8 or 10mm from the face of the board?
Like I said, I don't own a Festool, just trying to design something that will have one mortice cut in to a board with CNC and the other done with the Festool by 'hand' on the edge of an adjacent board.