"stryped" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> I have a new router table (ryobi). I had to mount the router directly
> to the table. (The mounting adaptors with the table would not fit. The
> router is ryobi also. How can I ensure the bit is straigth and parallel
> to the table?
Make a test cut with a straight bit and check the results.
Are you sure you want the bit to be parallel to the table and not
perpendicular?
>Do you have any suggestions to make the bit parallel?
I assumed he meant the question I answered. :-) Although, as my
parents used to say, "any assumption is a bad assumption." Having said
that:
http://www.mlcswoodworking.com/shopsite_sc/store/html/smarthtml/pages/horiztabl.html
Or maybe I should steer him toward a multirouter.
In any event, the OP said he was using regular accursed ryobi
abominations, so all bets are off. Asking how to determine whether any
ryobi tool is straight, square, or otherwise accurate is like asking
which boomerang can be best used as a straight-edge. Perhaps the
entire thread is moot.
Lest ye think I judge without speaking from experience, I actually
still have a ryobi fixed base boat anchor with a 1/4" collet. It was
an ill-advised purchase made in a fit of neophyte's blind tool-lust on
the same day I bought my delta benchtop table saw and benchtop jointer.
And while those two tools were quickly banished from the shop, the
boat anchor still collects dust in the corner, dust it did not it self
create.
brian
ummm. Brian, he wants the bit *parallel* to the table. What you suggested
will give him perpendicular to the table. Do you have any suggestions to
make the bit parallel? ;) --dave
"brianlanning" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Get a piece of 1/4" or 1/2" outside diameter pipe or bar stock and
> chuck it into the collet. That should give you something you can put a
> square against.
>
> brian
>
"Dave Jackson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> ummm. Brian, he wants the bit *parallel* to the table. What you
> suggested will give him perpendicular to the table. Do you have any
> suggestions to make the bit parallel? ;) --dave
>
Hinged mount so it is easily adjusted.
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 00:11:16 GMT, "Dave Jackson" <[email protected]>
wrote:
>ummm. Brian, he wants the bit *parallel* to the table. What you suggested
>will give him perpendicular to the table. Do you have any suggestions to
>make the bit parallel? ;) --dave
Drill a hole the diameter of the shank in the top of a 2-inch cube of
wood. Put the bit in the hole and set the cube on its side. Check
the bottom of the cube with a machinist's square.
Alternatively, build a jig in which to rest the router horizontally
and put the bit in the router. Use a framing square to verify the
router's subbase is perpendicular to the table.
--
Chuck Taylor
http://home.hiwaay.net/~taylorc/contact/