You have to have some play just to move it up and down.

Still trying to understand racking...

 

Thanks!

 

Welcome to the forum, @Pete de B

I would suspect there would be slight "wriggle room" in the posts to allow for smooth plunge.

 

Welcome to the forum, @Pete de B

I would suspect there would be slight "wriggle room" in the posts to allow for smooth plunge.

Thanks!

 

Welcome to the forum.

 

Thanks!

 

Thanks for the reactions guys - that makes sense.

 

I think it depends on how much slight is. I'd do some test cuts in hardwood to make sure it's not showing up in miscuts. Not a problem if you can fit pieces precisely, but if not, you want to return it as soon as possible.

 

Like I said I'm confused on raking. I have two DW625 routers and I'm lost on this one.....

 

I'll try some test cuts soon Tom - for now I'm waiting for a 1/2" collet to arrive (my worktop jig is made in China - for the US market - yet sold in Europe), so there is a compatibility glitch: DW625EK-QS comes (here in Holland anyway) with a 12mm collet. I shall overcome....

Yesterday I 'tested' some routers in the tool stores to see how much play they had. I don't what the salespeople thought I was up to, but the results were interesting:
Europe's 'ultimate' brand was about the same as my deWalt (though the 1000-ish W variant was pretty much perfection), whereas a hobbyist's brand was better than expected. Yet another brand (which should know better) was dreadful. Lost indeed.

Having said all this, a perfect joint with a plunge router is a big ask, I would think, when joining two long kitchen worktop pieces. The end result must be flat, but this flatness depends on a end-grain joint (40mm in section - and both halves) being absolutely square in the vertical. (If it were a simple joint made with a circular saw I could cut both halves such that: the error in one was cancelled out by the opposing board. But that's not an option with a 'hockey-stick' joint of course...)

 

I've looked at both routers and can feel nothing loose.

 

Just stumbled on this - not my issue exactly, but a comment (from Denis Lock) on pillar play and a possibly way to deal with it:

Why does a plunge router leave a mark when it plunges...

Using a straight bit or a spiral bit, either one, I was routing out some long and wide, but shallow mortises earlier, and I had to hollow it out a row at a time. I would plunge the router in until the depth stop hit the turret and then lock it down. From there I would slide it along using an...

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I don't think that's pillar play. Sounds like plunge bit play...

As far as returning the Trend, employees don't get payed enough to argue a router.. They will just just take it back and move forward. You've had the problem with two routers in a row from two different manufacturers...

 

Trying to send a short video of the pillar play I have in the router but this server won't accept .mp4 files. Anyone know what format does work?