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Originally Posted by Bruce Newendorp

A couple materials from this post are interesting to me and I would like to know where our team could buy them.
The 1X1X1/6" square tubing with the hole pattern as used by 1216 appears to be very useful and easy to work with. Does anyone have a source for this?
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When I talked to 1216 they bought 1x1x1/16 wall and then drilled it to a usefule size on a cnc mill. (you can email them to get more details). I know most of us don't have cnc mills so in the off season we will be making a drill guide out of 1/4 steel or aluminum. We made a couple of them for sheet metal stuff and it worked really well. If you use 1/4 architectural angle, you can make a nice drill guide by taking your time or on a conventional mill. do 1/8" holes and then clamp it to your box tube and any newbie can make a nice piece. Unclamp, slide, pin repeat. For some unkown reason this seems to go under the lightening hole mystery where kids love to drill lots of holes. File an edge, never! Drill lots of holes, yeah. A bit of caution: only drill through 1 side at a time otherwise you will get bit-walk with a thin drill. If you do this when the stock come in you will have a nice straight starting edge to work with.

Another solution would be to press a drill bushing into each hole.