Made some panels the other day and they turned out 'OK' for a first attempt.
They're just fish furniture.
Bought some more Oak today to finish up. Set up the bit, cut a test piece of
pine, looked OK. Cut my Oak and thought my technique was getting better.
Then I noticed that I had lost one of the grooves (Ogee?) in the face of my
panel. I thought the bit must have slipped, but it was OK. So I checked the
router and it had dropped an 1/8" or so. Raised it up again and recut one of
my pieces (which are now ff....) and it dropped again. Raised it again and
I discovered I can pull it down with my hand.
I've read about this with the Bosch, but not the Ryobi? Anyone else
experienced this problem with a Ryobi? RE175 BTW.
"Eric Johnson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Absolutely, I had a bookcase that I had probably 7 weekends into and on a
> final profile I was routing in the darn thing creeped on me. But I was
able
> to fix the router with a 5# dead blow hammer, never creeped on me again
> after that ;-).
>
> EJ
>
ROFL.
I discovered that tightening the depth stop will stop the slippage, which is
a pain but works. I think I'll take the springs out of mine, as I never use
the plunge feature outside the table and it sits in the table 90% of the
time. The springs also cause me to lose about 1/4" of depth under the table.
Bill Stock wrote:
>
> "Eric Johnson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> Absolutely, I had a bookcase that I had probably 7 weekends into and on a
>> final profile I was routing in the darn thing creeped on me. But I was
> able
>> to fix the router with a 5# dead blow hammer, never creeped on me again
>> after that ;-).
>>
>> EJ
>>
>
> ROFL.
>
> I discovered that tightening the depth stop will stop the slippage, which
> is a pain but works. I think I'll take the springs out of mine, as I never
> use the plunge feature outside the table and it sits in the table 90% of
> the time. The springs also cause me to lose about 1/4" of depth under the
> table.
I ended up doing the same, tighten the depth stop and the plunge stop down
to make it a non plunger and used it that way until I got a real router.
Bill Stock wrote:
> Made some panels the other day and they turned out 'OK' for a first
> attempt. They're just fish furniture.
>
> Bought some more Oak today to finish up. Set up the bit, cut a test piece
> of pine, looked OK. Cut my Oak and thought my technique was getting
> better. Then I noticed that I had lost one of the grooves (Ogee?) in the
> face of my panel. I thought the bit must have slipped, but it was OK. So I
> checked the router and it had dropped an 1/8" or so. Raised it up again
> and recut one of my pieces (which are now ff....) and it dropped again.
> Raised it again and I discovered I can pull it down with my hand.
>
> I've read about this with the Bosch, but not the Ryobi? Anyone else
> experienced this problem with a Ryobi? RE175 BTW.
Yes, my craftsman was a re-labeled ryobi, I ruined enough wood with it to
more than justify the cost of a real router.