Router table safety

ort box side to a hot cutter on the router table for the purpose of routing a stopped dado for the box bottom. Pat's advice is never drop a workpiece onto a hot cutter on the router table. This is something I have done ofte n with longer box and drawer sides.

I see two options:

h it turn would be held by a fixture of some sort. Once the cutter is at t he proper depth, then advance the piece to the stop.

Fixture it, for the project's sake as well as your own. At very least, glue it to a larger, easier to handle board.

Lew Hodgett wrote:

-------------------------------------------------------------- "Mike Marlow" wrote:

----------------------------------------------------------- Lew Hodgett wrote:

Yes as previously described below.

-------------------------------------------------------- Lew Hodgett wrote:

---------------------------------------------------- Lew Hodgett wrote:

------------------------------------------------- "Mike Marlow" wrote:

--------------------------------------------------------- Not at all.

A momentary contact switch in a foot operated switch provides the "Dead Man" switch function required for a safety device.

In addition, it provides under voltage proction if the necessary additional devices have been included.

A "Push on, push off" switch whether it is mounted in a foot switch or a wall switch, provides a convenience function, but definitely a SAFETY function.

Lew