Hi JEBishop
A picture of the table would help on this one or a link to the table you have ,model number.
Many of the cheap plastic tables can be reworked to do a good job but I think we need a picture or two to see what you are dealing with.
"What should be the depth a router bit goes into the collet?" take the nut all the way off take a hard look at it, if it has slots down the side of the collet the router bits needs to just be at the bottom of the collet nut, a easy way to make sure you get them in right is just to take the nut off all the time then just pop it in the router , or your can take a BLACK marker and mark all your bits....
one of the paint markers work well for this job (white paint type so you can see it in the dark hole)
You can see many.many router fences on the forum from just a board to a super duty one with all the bells...
and the super ones do have there place and you will be glad you made one some day...it's 1/2 of a good router table.
Bj
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Originally Posted by JEBishop Hey Guys!
I managed to get to try out my router table Santa brought me. Table was good,solid. The 1.5hp router that cam with it seemed to have plenty of power. However the fence really sucked!! The moveable part of the fence to make up the diff from what you cut off did not fit good I had to do some filing on it. And they used molded plastic pieces, which did not fit very well either. Am thinking about scraping all of it and attaching a solid piece across the fence,(I am Not up to jointing at this point) That way the fence will be all the same from one end to another. Any Ideas? Another question, when I put the bit in the router as per the instruction video, I did not have the height I needed. What should be the depth a router bit goes into the collet? I have 1/4 shank bits. Thanks John
P.S. Anyone have any good pics of router fences? |