compensating for undersized 1/2 inch plywood

[Shawn]

Hi All

I am making a dresser and am now on the drawer stage, I orderd 1/2 birch not thinking to ask for real 1/2 baltic birch. So the question is this I now have a ton of drawer box pieces cut in undersized 1/2 birch plywood. Anyone figured out the best way to compensate?

screw length

coarse or fine

bit setting

jig setting

I have the regular jig and the micro.

Thanks

Shawn

[Michael Gibbons]

Shawn, I believe 3/4 or 1" micro screws, coarse thread, adjust drill stop collar to correct setting using the scale on the jig. Micro plugs also. Good luck. Hope someone else chimes in.

[Shawn]

Thanks for the reply MIchael, after a bunch of test holes and screw type testing I have a workable solution.

The micro jig manual suggests the following settings to get a pluggable hole in 1/2 inch material which just so happens works well with undersized plywood.

Drill Bit Collar - 5/8
Jig - 1/2
Screw - 3/4 pan head fine

The only part I don't like about this is that I can not find 3/4 pan head screws that come in course only fine.

Anyways this is the method I will use for my undersized plywood drawer boxes. Hope this helps someone else.

Thanks
Shawn

[Ken Darga]

I use "fine" thread screws into baltic birch PW.

Baltic birch is a "hardwood".

[John Schaben]

Shawn - One reason you cannot find 3/4" coarse thread screws is that they are not offered anywhere. By the time enough bare shank is left to pull the stock together, there is only enough shank left for a turn or two at the coarse pitch.