bought the collect extender (along with my other B-day pressies) from axminster (yup the one in the review mag that I just got thru for 20 squid).
all looks good (CMT i think...) very big and chuncky, but there-in lies the problem its TOO LONG!
I`ve gone from hardly having my raised panel bit in my router collet (did I really use it like that :shock to having the raised panel bit 10mm above the table with the router full lowered
so after a bit of head scratching I made a false table top and hey-presto we`re good to go. The raising panel bit seemed fine although i did notice a FAR bit of deflection when the bearing touched my panel :?
problems came when I wanted to mould the stiles and rails. (single bit)
I seemed to get alot of "judder" i.e. no mater how smoothly I tried to push the stile/rail thru the cutter (lots of hold-downs etc) it seemed to judder, not alot bu tI noticed enough so that i got extra amounts of tear out. I presume this is caused due to the deflection of the bit(?) setting up some oscillation(?)
overall a little bit disappointed.......
anyone else had the same?
steve
all looks good (CMT i think...) very big and chuncky, but there-in lies the problem its TOO LONG!
I`ve gone from hardly having my raised panel bit in my router collet (did I really use it like that :shock to having the raised panel bit 10mm above the table with the router full lowered
so after a bit of head scratching I made a false table top and hey-presto we`re good to go. The raising panel bit seemed fine although i did notice a FAR bit of deflection when the bearing touched my panel :?
problems came when I wanted to mould the stiles and rails. (single bit)
I seemed to get alot of "judder" i.e. no mater how smoothly I tried to push the stile/rail thru the cutter (lots of hold-downs etc) it seemed to judder, not alot bu tI noticed enough so that i got extra amounts of tear out. I presume this is caused due to the deflection of the bit(?) setting up some oscillation(?)
overall a little bit disappointed.......
anyone else had the same?
steve