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- Subject: Cheapo router bit mishap
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.190254.119784@marshall.wvnet.edu>
- From: rcbi27@marshall.wvnet.edu (DBRUM)
- Date: 21 Jan 93 19:02:53 -0500
- Organization: Marshall University
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- I thought I'd report another bad experience I just had with a cheapo carbide
- tipped router bit.
-
- I was using a two wing slot cutter, 1/8", in some white oak when the peice
- of wood got jammed and was promptly torn from my hand and rocketted across
- the garage right in front of my face. It was a small piece of wood, and I
- consider myself very lucky for not having it adorning my forehead at this
- moment. But equally fortunate am I for not having been embedded by the
- tiny carbide tip of one of the wings of the slot cutter, which became
- detatched during the process and now rests lord only knows where--perhaps
- it is stuck in the deep, ragged gouges running down the side of the piece of
- tough wood, I'll have to check.
-
- I can however report--after having intelligently modified my feed mode
- after the mishap--that the cutter cuts just as well with only one intact
- wing. Some of you might remember last time when I reported that a cheapo
- carbide router bit, a 1/4" straight type, shattered unaccountably and
- ruined a fine Porter Cable router by the broken pieces falling down into
- the armature (it was underslung on a router table) and breaking the device's
- fan blades.
-
- I'm not trying to sound like a spokesman or anything. For all I know, the
- non-cheapo carbide router bits may be just as breakable. Due to budgetary
- considerations (ahem), I have not tested these as amply as the cheapos.
- Those powerful routers produce a lot of torque, and I guess when push comes
- to shove, something's gotta give.
-
- --
-
- "I laughed one time and they
- were on the phone to the Man." --Cool Hand Luke
-