Folks, it's not enough to just dial in that perfect router fence setting. You should actually lock it down before proceeding. You will find this to be a rather more productive use of your time.
Ah well, I really wanted to resaw and glue up another bookmatched cherry drawer front anyway. Now I have the perfect excuse!
-Leuf
Yes, and it helps greatly to lock the motor adjustment too. I find that a PC
892 squirms quite a bit while unlocked.
Condolences. One of those "if only" moments I'm sure.
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ If you're gonna be dumb, you better be tough +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Put you in a room full of horse manure and you'd be looking for the pony. A classic optimist - or a master of sarcasm.
We all experience "thinkos" -the mental equivalent of a typo. But tool designers should have worked out their thinkos BEFORE putting a machine into productions and circulation. I'm thinking specifically of the idiot who designed and/or approved the Porter Cable D-Handle (the one with the motor that has the short power cord that plugs into the D-handle) motor holding collar locking mechanism - you know - the one most people eventually get around to replacing with a ratcheting handled bolt that will lock things in place for real. \
Now given the start up torque rotation the motor has when fired up - you know - the one that tries to turn the router upside down - you'd think they'd remember their action/reaction lecture and use a locking mechanism that works - without the use of channel locks or a pipe wrench - with a 2' piece of pipe slipped over the handle to provide a little more leverage.
The first time you pull the trigger on the D-handle and the motor starts to spin its way out of the "locked" collar, winding up that short power cord plugged into the D-handle you've got a death grip on, trying desperately to let off the trigger before the motor - with that spinning chunk of carbide - escapes - to lord only knows where - but probably towards flesh . . .
Rant mode off.
Leuf: You're probably wondering why this problem didn't occur on the test cuts. Well when a thinko has more consequence the lesson learned sticks a lot better.
Condolences.
charlie b
Reminds me of the time I made a tapered-rabbet / dado on my router table. An interesting but useless cut.
-- Mark
"Mark Jerde" wrote in news:PaOvh.2744$eH.136@trnddc05:
That reminds me of the time that my router table threw the side of a curly maple clock case 20 ft into the driveway.
Clamp down the table fence, dummy!
Patriarch
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