77 Re: routers
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77 Re: routers
From: colwell@mfci.UUCP (Robert Colwell)
Date: 16 Aug 88 13:08:01 GMT
I've built a lot of things with my Sears router, and at this point I
wouldn't mind much if the damn thing would just keel over and die
completely so I could get a real one. As Bob said, the stupid depth
adjustment is nearly worthless, especially when the router is mounted
upside down on the router table. There, you better tighten down that
"thumbscrew" or the router may gradually walk down during a pass over
the table, which is a creative thing for it to do, but I've never
seen a single instance where the final product was improved thereby.
And if you start using pliers on that thumbscrew, it will punish you
by stripping its threads. Sears is not without a sense of humor,
though; it actually puts calibration markings on the black collar
that ostensibly makes the micro-height-adjustments. Ha ha ha.
I got that router at the same time I got one of their special
zillion-steel-router-bits for $70 (or whatever it was, you know what
I mean). That was a great deal -- I use that little plastic case to
hold all the Freud carbide bits that I replaced all those crummy
Sears steel bits with. (Get what you pay for, yeah I know.)
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