I have an Hitachi TR12 plunge router. The collet has come loose from where it threads onto the armature shaft. How do I lock the armature shaft to tighten the collet onto the shaft? There is no allen wrench hole like there is on my Milwaukee routers.
Take a look at the blowup of the router and you'll see that the collet is _supposed_ to just screw on. In the past, for some tools, you just stuck a screw driver into the fan to stop the armature from turning. However, My M12V has a bolt on the end of the armature and the collet tightens down with another wrench.
Silly me. I should have asked my wife first. I just didn't use the right google request. the answer was the first on the list. In case anyone else has this problem just google Hitachi router collet tighten. I would post the link but I'm new to the list and not allowed to until I have poted 10 times.
Please note, that if a website server administrator knows his stuff, he will default his server to HTTP. This means that you don't need to put in the "http://www." and you can post urls on this forum on day one. The forum server hasn't been setup to trap this, as far as I know, yet.
If the url doesn't work, just add "www." (that's dubya dubya dubya dot).
Hi Telecarver1:
We used to call fixes like that a "kludge." I don't know if they still use words like that now. Did you speak with the service people at Hitachi? I'm not that familiar with Hitachi service but every time I call they're very helpful. The Makita people are fantastic, but then the Makitas are dead easy to work with.
allthunbs's,
That doesn't work with this router. That only loosens the bit from the collet. I learned that I had to dis-assemble the router and put the armature in a wooden vise to hold it while I tightened the whole collet onto the armature shaft.
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