Greeting Arun and welcome to the router forum, glad you could join us.

 

I'm not sure about skil but, you might try removing the collet and inserting the sleeve from the bottom and reinstalling the collet with the sleeve in it. In some cases, that's the manual's directions for inserting an adapter sleeve.
For the future, I've found that a 1/4" collet is better than an adapter. Again, don't know about Skil but if they offer one, that's the way to go. They aren't expensive....at least not for my PC, anyway.

Gene

 

How would i go about doing this? I am new to routers and mine isnt going in. And i am not sure how to lossen the collet it the nut is already off. The 1/2" just stays tight

 

Hello and welcome! Do you have all the tension off the 1/2 in collet? They will sometimes hold up in the arbor and not loosen completely. I know nothing about Skill, but it is something to try! Enjoy the forum>

 

Hi Arde,

I have that exact model and my 1/4" collet fits in very well. I just went out and tried it. Try making sure the collet nut is loose enough, if that's not the problem, please describe exactly what happens so we can be of more help.

BTW, I have used both collets successfully.

Thanks Arde and welcome to the forums, there is all sorts of good help here.

Ed......

 

Thanks all for your responses. It is great to be welcomed

I have completely removed the collet nut. Still the "adapter sleeve" doesn't go into the existing collet at the end of the "armature shaft". (see attached picture from the manual pg 9, fig 6). Should I attempt to widen the existing collet with pliers - I'm afraid to damage it.

 

Welcome to the RouterForums Arun.

 

Arun, I too am not familiar with your particular router but I would suggest that you measure the outside diameter of the sleeve to make sure that it matches the collet. Mistakes do happen, a while back I ordered a 10mm reducer sleeve for my 1/2" (12.7mm) Makita, when it finally arrived it wouldn't tighten because it's OD was the European 12mm!

 

Thanks Ed and Harry for your suggestions - it helped to finally figure out that I had a defective router. I took the adapter sleeve to Lowes and it fit perfectly on the display router. So I returned the router and bought a replacement Skil 1825, and everything works great now! Made my first (rather uneven) dado cut, but I think I will learn

 

Welcome to the forum @Law20

This thread dates back to 2009, and I would suggest that you start a new thread as you may or may not receive a reply here. Enjoy the forum.

 

If you are talking about the original 1/2" there's nothing to take out. According to the pic above it's part of the motor shaft. My guess, if the adapter is the right one, is that someone tightened the original collet without a bit in it... that's a no-no. Can you get a 1/2" bit in it? If you can't then the collet has been compressed or possibly it's a metric one???