J. Clarke wrote:

| This afternoon I was routing a roundover on a box when suddenly I
| felt a sharp pain and the router leapt at me and died.
|
| I at first thought my hair had gotten into the bit, but it was worse
| than that--it had been drawn into the motor from the top until the
| router stalled or the brushes came off or whatever else caused the
| router to stop happened (I haven't had a chance to tear it down
| yet).

I'm glad you weren't seriously hurt.

Must've been a sight to see a long-haired dude using a 1 HP router for
a barrette. [ ;-) ]

Hmm - you do realize this might be the perfect excuse to go shopping
for a trim router...

--
Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/solar.html