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I must have gotten a bad Rigid router, after about 15 minutes of use it would start cutting poorly but when it was cold it would cut great. Thought maybe it was a dull cutter so I put a new 6801 cutter on and the same results. Went back to the PC with the old cutter and cut shafts for two hours...

Could not have said it any better.

Hello Gary, This thing is pretty crude but it works. I had the two pins out of alignment the first try and had to redo them. The pins are hardened steel and the body is brass with a steel rod for the leverage handle. With this I can get the nut loose and tight without any stress to the body of...

I made a tool for getting the spindle not off that really speeds up the process a bunch, if interested I could post a picture of the tool if you would like . It was a pain cobbling around with the wrong tool trying to get that nut off and on.

First off thumbs up to Todd (TSP&B) for making a nice small mount to use with his regular mount for the Rigid router, he also is very helpful on the phone and he ships things out very fast. I have used both routers and I will say the Rigid is a little more compact and a lot more quiet. I like...

What is a good size tank and HP for a compressor that would handle all coring needs in cue building? I have a 2 HP 4 gallon portable compressor that I have used on a few forearms that works but I have to go slow and stop and let the air build up a couple of times, this is very slow. Any advice...

Hold the router with the spring locking button facing down and see if the router will turn by hand, turn the router with the button facing up and try to turn it by hand, if it locks up it is probably a broken locking pin or as stated earlier a bad bearing but I have never had a bad bearing...

I have been using that controller for a couple of years with no problems. Decrease the speed and the noise drops a bunch.

Thank you for all the replies and private messages. All this information has been very helpful. I replaced the bearings on my Porter Cable trimmer and ran a few pieces of scrap with the center of the cutter on the center line of the lathe and it cut very smooth. I did notice that the lower...

Hello, When using this cutter on a Hightower lathe does the top edge of the cutter Have to be lined up on center or can you get a good cut as long as some of the cutters width is lined up on center? Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thank you...

Hello, Todd modified that mount to be able to mount the router either way. Here are some pictures of the modification. Also instead of letting the screw sit inside the slot I like to just use a longer screw with a extra thick washer and tighten it down on the outside of the groove.

Hello Bill, I like it pretty good. If the cutter rotation was a bit faster it would be a lot better but if I take smaller passes it works just fine. I added a cheap Dro to the Y axis so dialing in on multiple passes is a lot easier. The Dro was around $24 from Grizzly, it was fairly easy to...

Hello, I have been messing around with this jig setup and have it attached to the milling table with 6 t-nuts with the tailstock and indexer on a rail with a pivot on one end and a lock down on the other end. The fixture is very easy to remove and replace with repeatable placement. Once I get...

Hello I will take the shop vac air cleaner. Send me payment and total information with pm and I will send payment this evening. Thank you.

Paypal sent for aluminum rings. Thank you.

Very good information Tom.

Thank you Dick, You explained your setup very nice, I appreciate the time you took to help.

Thanks for the reply Paul, you gave some very good information and I appreciate your input.

You are correct Kim, the picture was just for a quick illustration.

Hello, I have spent a few hours using the search function and reading all I could find on this topic. The setup would be a small taig headstock with indexer and a drilling tail stock attached to a piece of dovetail mounted on a 1/2" thick by 2" wide piece of aluminum. What would be the best...