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I’m not sure I’m posting this in the correct place and I’ll be happy to re-post to a different category if someone thinks I’m playing in the wrong park. All the operations I reference are with a table mounted router. And I’m afraid I’ll have to provide some idea of what I’m doing and why - so that my question makes more sense.
I’m building a kitchen cabinet. I’ve done a couple of complete kitchens but I’m no pro. When I did my first kitchen, I got excited about Marc Sommerfeld’s methods/tools and I purchased his matched tongue and groove bits. And I followed his suggestions using a rubber grommet/washer in the bottom of the collet. Each time a bit is placed in the collet it bottoms out on the washer. (This allows the user to cut a groove and then switch to a tongue cutter without changing bit heights and cut a matching tongue.)
This worked fine until my Craftsman 315.275062 started having switch problems. I might be able to sort them out??? But it just seems simpler to start using my Bosch 1617 EVS. EXCEPT that the collet shaft is about ½” too long. Thus the bits don’t bottom out like they did with the Craftsman. They slide down until the cutter head touches the collet nut.
So…. Can I safely add a short length of dowel to the bottom of the collet (along with the washer) so the set bottoms?
Thanks for reading all this and your input.
I’m building a kitchen cabinet. I’ve done a couple of complete kitchens but I’m no pro. When I did my first kitchen, I got excited about Marc Sommerfeld’s methods/tools and I purchased his matched tongue and groove bits. And I followed his suggestions using a rubber grommet/washer in the bottom of the collet. Each time a bit is placed in the collet it bottoms out on the washer. (This allows the user to cut a groove and then switch to a tongue cutter without changing bit heights and cut a matching tongue.)
This worked fine until my Craftsman 315.275062 started having switch problems. I might be able to sort them out??? But it just seems simpler to start using my Bosch 1617 EVS. EXCEPT that the collet shaft is about ½” too long. Thus the bits don’t bottom out like they did with the Craftsman. They slide down until the cutter head touches the collet nut.
So…. Can I safely add a short length of dowel to the bottom of the collet (along with the washer) so the set bottoms?
Thanks for reading all this and your input.
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