Subject: Router used in router table

From: [email-masked] (Mike Clayton)
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 21:51:33 GMT

When using a panel raising bit with a router in a table is the bit completely 
outside the router base?  Or should you only buy bits that fit within the 
inside diameter of your router's base?

Thanks,   Mike

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From: [email-masked] (Sherman Whipple)
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 23:15:18 GMT

On Tue, 11 Feb 1997 21:51:33 GMT, [email-masked] (Mike Clayton)

>inside diameter of your router's base?
Mike,

I don't know about your router table, but my base is removed to attach
the router to the table/plate.  Frankly, large diameter bits scare me
to death.  I had a rabbiting bit (the one with the set of different
diameter bearings) go ballistic a few years ago and bounce all over my
shop.

You may want to look at the panel raisers where the profile runs
lengthwise.  You have to run the panel on edge and will need a higher
fence, but it should be safer, slower rim speed, and the bearings in
the router will have less stress.

Good luck,

SW
Whipple, Sargent & Associates
Strategic Services
10 Industrial Park Road
Hingham, MA 02043
Phone: 617-740-4025  Fax: 617-749-9474
E-Mail: [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Mike Thompson)
Date: 12 Feb 1997 20:29:01 GMT

>inside diameter of your router's base?

My old router table setup (Craftsman router on a Craftsman table) had
the problem of the table had a smaller hole than the panel-raising bit
I used.  The table's metal, so none of this cutting a larger hole.
What worked for me was to set the bit above the table, but then I _raised
the table_, so to speak, by adding a 1/4 inch ply surface with a cutout for
the bit on which I slid the panel.  That way I could raise the bit
pass-by-pass into the work until the panel was "raised".
YMMV.

- Mike

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