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GeneralI've spent the last two days building myself a router table Pin
OriginalGriff31-May-21 9:44
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The final aim being to build some new kitchen cupboard doors - and hand routing that many mortices and tenons is a recipe for large piles of scrap wood. So I've repurposed one of my routers into the table.

So I bought a set of mortice and tenon bits and after a quick try to make my own tenon - Yay! It worked! - I tried the morticing bit and it worked well, though a slightly different size to my tenon, but I wasn't trying for a specific size this time.

So I loaded the tenoning bit ... and turned it on. Horrible noise, horrible smell, turn it off quick. Maybe it's too heavy - it's a physically large bit?

Nope. The bit has moved in the router and isn't running "true". It's caught the aluminium mounting plate which is were the noise and smell came from. But why?

Long story short the shank diameter is out of tolerance: about 0.2mm too narrow, and that's way outside what the collet can comfortably adapt to with a heavy bit. So when spinning at 20,000 rpm it goes out of balance and ... nasty and dangerous. The morticing one is pretty much spot on, so I guess that's Chinese manufacturing for you, again ... Sigh | :sigh:

Oh well, it'll take longer to do them all "by hand" but at least I can do the mortices in one pass.

I'm still happy the table worked!
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