Are there any guidelines for how tight the base clamp should be? How much presuure should it take to tighten the clamp?
I was doing some routing yesterday and something slipped. I checked and it was not the bit collect so I’m assuming it was the base clamp. I was trimming the red oak edging that I applied to a plywood shelf. I made one of those jigs that rides on the surface of the shelf and planes the edging. I’m going back to using a flush trim bit with the shelf held vertically.
One thing I’m wondering is if there was some ‘slop’ in the adjustment similar to what you get with a table saw or drill press table when you lower the table saw blade or drill press table instead of raising them into final position.
I was doing some routing yesterday and something slipped. I checked and it was not the bit collect so I’m assuming it was the base clamp. I was trimming the red oak edging that I applied to a plywood shelf. I made one of those jigs that rides on the surface of the shelf and planes the edging. I’m going back to using a flush trim bit with the shelf held vertically.
One thing I’m wondering is if there was some ‘slop’ in the adjustment similar to what you get with a table saw or drill press table when you lower the table saw blade or drill press table instead of raising them into final position.