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
Leuf wrote:
>
> 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
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
Yes, and it helps greatly to lock the motor adjustment too. I find that a PC
892 squirms quite a bit while unlocked.
"Leuf" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> 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
"Leuf" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Folks, it's not enough to just dial in that perfect router fence
> setting. You should actually lock it down before proceeding.
Reminds me of the time I made a tapered-rabbet / dado on my router table.
An interesting but useless cut.
-- Mark
"Mark Jerde" <[email protected]> wrote in
news:PaOvh.2744$eH.136@trnddc05:
>
> "Leuf" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> Folks, it's not enough to just dial in that perfect router fence
>> setting. You should actually lock it down before proceeding.
>
> Reminds me of the time I made a tapered-rabbet / dado on my router
> table. An interesting but useless cut.
>
> -- Mark
>
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
On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 19:30:53 -0500, Leuf <[email protected]> wrote:
>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!
Condolences. One of those "if only" moments I'm sure.
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