I now went on to build the separator for the cabinets. They are to have a front face about 2 inches wide and from top to bottom in addition, some way of screwing them to the back of the cabinet. This picture is of the jig I made to drill the back cleats at the 22.5 degree angle
Here all 12 of the dividers are made up then tested.
All 12 fit tight and now off to laquer...
While I waited for the laquer to dry, I went on to make a round hole into a square one.. the carrage bolts have a round head and square on the other. This square head keeps the bolt from being turned.
The padlock loops came with the most wimpy of bolts and nuts. So I changed the bolts to carrage and punched a square hole in each.
The Drake press is a bit over kill for this operation, but it made it so much easier than the small arbors we have. Handle is out of view. Its about 4 foot long and counter balanced. The wheel is used to bring the press back to the height to start another press.
Once I started the keyway punch it progressively cuts a square out until it has reached the end where the square is the same size on the end as my carrage bolt square. Since I have to put padlocks on each cabinet in this lab and the next, the total being 78 sets. As a result, I have to pull this handle down 312 times!
Here is the end result. Two cabinets from one. Now students can have there own lock and cabinet as opposed to old combination locks and sharing glassware. Also one can not get into the other cabinet without breaking past this partition. The cleats in the back ore on both sides. So unscrewing them from one side is fruitless, because the other side is attached as well.
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