Question on routers and router tables

This bother me a bit. Do you feel some resistance when the bit starts moving? If not, then adjusting the bit would be solely a visual adjustment and that can lead to errors.

Well, so far in my search, I haven't found anything better. I'm not as concerned with price as I am with machined quality.

Thanks for the critique.

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Upscale
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"Leon"> wrote

Reminds me of a guy I knew in high school. He wanted to be a politician and a ......... weather man.

Both profession require you to make big promises and lie a lot.

He called it "integrity".

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Lee Michaels

The point is that it's easier to precisely adjust the height if you are making the adjustment from the same side of the table as the one on which you are making the measurement.

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J. Clarke

My 3HP Makita 3612C (an old design but still a goodie) has an electronic brake. I don't know whether the Triton (or any other popular "3HP" router) has that feature, but I *love* it, and any new router I bought would most certainly have to have it.

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Steve Turner

That sounds reasonable. Some observations, go outside moments before the forcast and report what you see and feel. Several years ago when we first got going on Satelite Dish programing we were only able to get the major broad cast stations from New York or Los Angeles IIRC. We had to pick which ever one worked the best for us with reguard to program times. We went with the East coast network and I found that the New Youk City metropolitan area "rain" forcast was often more accurate than the local forcast here in Houston. If it was going to rain in NY it would probably rain in Houston as well. LOL

Yeah, but I think it has become pretty common place to understand that the hp and amp ratings are more of an indicator of how that tool will perform as compared to one with less or higher ratings. Automobile manufacturers rate hp of their engines and that is fine if you have the engine directly hooked up to a dyno. Unfortunately those hp numbers are reduced when the engine is attached to a transmission, drive shaft, differential, and axel. And those perceived numbers are further reduced when the same engine is matched to a larger vehicle or truck. I highly suspect that the 3.5 hp and 15 amp rating is closer to accurate than say the hp that is at the wheels of my Tundra that has a 382 hp rating but I know that this particular engine will perform better than the engine with the 235 hp rating.

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Leon

He is, in hindsight, which is a benefit the router manufacturers get to take advantage of.

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-MIKE-

When my son was about 4 years old he wanted to be the guy that rode on the back of the garbage truck and collected garbage. I questioned him on that a few minutes wondering what the attraction was and was relieved to learn that he wanted to ride on the back of the truck. I asked if he had ever smelled the garbage in those trucks and he replied with a nod and said that it stunk. I reminded him that riding on that truck all day would require him to smell that stink all day also.

Before I realized that my son was pretty smart I kiddingly would remind him that he could be come a doctor or a weather forecaster. NO ONE would ever seriously expect you to diagnose or forecast it correctly every time. Fortunately he has done well in school and I now kiddingly remind him that he is his mother's and my revised "Retirement Plan". :~)

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Leon

Do you like that brake when used in a hand held operation and do you have to hold the switch for the motor to continue to run? I don't think that would be a big deal when used in a router table situation but I can certainly see the value in hand held usage.

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Leon

Have you seen a CNC router?

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Leon

I've got a cheap Ryobi router table and a cheap Ryobi router to go with it.

As it turns out, a nut-driver easily fits in a hole in the router's table and engages the shaft for the bit adjustment. I simply adjust the height where I want it, the reach under the table and slap the height lock.

What IS missing is someway to lock the router shaft for changing the bit. I solved that by drilling one hole and adding one guide such that a push on a

1/4" rod from the front of the table engages the shaft lock. I can then work on bit changing from the top.
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HeyBub

Well concerning those statements, your set up may be like that but not all routers and or router lifts are the same.

Many router lifts, some routers have no lock or have the need for a lock under the table. My particular router has a lock but it is not needed when used in the router table configuration. The lock might be needed if I used my router in a hand held application in it's plunge configuration.

Some router lifts only afford you the ability to and or are much easier to adjust from above the table. Still in my case there is no router table height adjustment on top however the collet is loosened and tightened from on top of the router table.

Having said that I pretty much go with your school of thought myself but realize that not every one uses the same router that I do so different factors will have varying degrees of importance to the user.

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Leon

LOL, I cannot agree with that either. It is not unusual for the local weather guy to say we need the rain it has been days since we have gotten any. He then states that the official rainfall measurement was "zip" when for the same time period, same city, I measure 1.5". Or visa versa.

The thing that gets my goat is when they comment that the high/ low temp is/was "X" degrees above or below normal for the day to exaggerate the heat or cold temperature conditions for any given day. What the heck do they think "normal" means? It is absolutely normal for the temperature to not be exactly the same all the time. It would make much more sense if they indicated the same figures as compared to the "AVERAGE" temp of a particular day.

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Leon

I've got a real 5 hp router, and it's not especially top heavy - it's just heavy... and the power cord is a bit heavy, too.

:)

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Morris Dovey

"Lee Michaels" wrote

Or, in the case of weather predictors, "guess" a lot.

I will say that I've been slightly impressed the past few years with their accuracy, more or less. Being in the construction business, I start every Monday morning updating the top line of each day in my "week-at-a-glance" organizer for the next 15 day forecast, and correcting those wrong from the prior week.

The past few years there has been a lot less correcting necessary.

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Swingman

"Swingman" wrote ..

I assume that the geology around there is fairly consistent and straightforward to forcast. I live in Seattle in the middle of the "Puget Sound Convergence Zone". The weather people around here really have to work hard.

We got a body of water in front of us (Puget Sound). We have some mountains on the other side of that (Olympic Mountains) with the Pacific Ocean on the other side of them. And behind us, we have the Cascade mountain range. We also have Canada to the north of us who likes to send us some nasty cold weather now and then. In addition to all these varibles, in the winter, the snow level varies daily. with lots of variations in elevation.

What then happens is about thirty little microclimates depending where you are in this Chaos model. And as any good Chaos model will do, it is moody and unpredictable. This winter had snow falling almost half the time somewhere. Except for the really big storms, they hardly ever got it right. Parts of the year, their computer models work really well. Increase the number of storms or weather patterns, it becomes a true mockery of any kind of predictive process.

We often compare the weather lies to the Mayor lies. Who was the bigget liar yesterday kind of discussion.

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Lee Michaels

"Lee Michaels" wrote

Much less complicated climate wise hereabouts. Around here it is either raining, or it isn't ... nothing much else matters/happens.

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Swingman

Let's see, summer is July 4 & 5.

After that, snow or rain.

Kind of like Cleveland.

Lew

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Lew Hodgett

OK, I stand corrected. Thanks for the info

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dadiOH

We had wonderful Summers in Cleveland. And because of our position in the time zone, it didn't get dark until about 9:30, end of June-beginning on July.

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-MIKE-

Funny you should ask, because the Makita is my table router and I got tired of taking it out of the table for hand-held operations so I bought a Dewalt combo pack. I agonized over that purchase because the Dewalt had all the features I wanted *except* for a brake, and to this day I wish I'd found a different combo that had one. I like the brake for both table and hand-held operations. I wish my tablesaw had one! :-)

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Steve Turner

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