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Default 30mm router bush bodge...

On Wednesday, August 31, 2016 at 4:34:33 PM UTC+1, jim wrote:
My old wickes branded (draper I think) 1/2" router didn't come
with a 30mm guide bush, but a 22mm one whose outline shape looks
nothing like anything else on eBay etc. This shape is repeated in
the moulded base plate to help it locate, then bolted through to
the metal baseplate.

I want to practice using a kitchen worktop template that needs a
30mm bush...

Any suggestions what I can do (apart from buy another router) to
work around this?

So far I've whittled a plastic section of a pushfit plumbing
connector that is 30.5mm od to be a firm push fit onto the
existing 22mm bush protrusion, but I'm not fantastically
optimistic about its concentricity, longevity etc.

I see Trend do a universal adapter base but have read it uses up
quite a few mm of plunge depth...

Any ingenious ideas from the experts?

TIA

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Jim K


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Trend sell a replacement base plate which will fit most routers and which in turn will take standard bushes

https://www.trenddirectuk.com/unibase