Routing with a drill...

[Edwin Pawlowski]

Big difference in performance between spinning 700 rpm versus 22,000. Tried it once with a straight cutter just to trim a little piece. Router bits work best in routers. Ed

[Faustino Dina]

Hi,

This can sound weird but... have you tryed to use router bits with a drill? A fixed drill (vertical fixed, on a table) should behave very close to a plunging router....

[P©WÉ®T©©LMAN]

No where near the required speed to rout properly with a drill & possibly dangerous if the slower speed allows the bit to kickback....not even worth trying in my opinion.

[Charlie Self]

PowerToolman responds:

Even high speed drills are limited to about 2500 rpm, without load. Routers start at about 4 times that and rise to 25,000 or more rpm. Too, the bearings in drills are not built to take the side loads routers get.

Charlie Self

"Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them." H. L. Mencken

[George]

Except that the tool (and its bearings) are NOT designed for a side load...