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I teach in a very small high school and need to add a router table and router. At the moment there is only a no-name quarter-inch router attached to a tiny table. All cutter changes and adjustments are difficult, with little room for hands and tools. Additionally, there are times we’d like to use a bigger cutter than we can now use.
The Industrial Tech Department at the University I attended subtly discouraged the use of, and teaching the use of, shapers or routers in today’s litigious society. (And the school I was at previous to this one had very tight restriction on router use…pretty much instructor use only.) As a result I do not have deep experience with many different machines to call on while spec-ing this thing out.
With budgets the way they now are, I will only have one chance to “get it right” and don’t want to make a mistake. I will have about one thousand dollars, I think, available for this project.
Important considerations: I must have excellent machine-guarding, stability and overall passive safety. I need durability (remember this is for high school students) first and foremost. Ease in changing tools and the ability to adjust from above are important. Beyond that anything else would be gravy.
Thanks, Lyle
The Industrial Tech Department at the University I attended subtly discouraged the use of, and teaching the use of, shapers or routers in today’s litigious society. (And the school I was at previous to this one had very tight restriction on router use…pretty much instructor use only.) As a result I do not have deep experience with many different machines to call on while spec-ing this thing out.
With budgets the way they now are, I will only have one chance to “get it right” and don’t want to make a mistake. I will have about one thousand dollars, I think, available for this project.
Important considerations: I must have excellent machine-guarding, stability and overall passive safety. I need durability (remember this is for high school students) first and foremost. Ease in changing tools and the ability to adjust from above are important. Beyond that anything else would be gravy.
Thanks, Lyle