On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 11:45:48 +0000, Andy Dingley
wrote:

On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 23:19:26 +0000, Andy Hall
wrote:

Well there's your problem, isn't it. A non-locking switch is enough
to stop me buying any router with one.

I'm pretty sure that most, if not all, now have this courtesy of the
pussies in Brussels.

Locking switches aren't extinct yet, although they're certainly
getting rare.

Does anyone know (ie can cite the real regulation) just what the
status of router switches is ?

Routers, like most other woodworking power tools are covered by the
Machinery Directive, 98/37/EC.

This is implemented in the UK via the DTI

There is more information than you ever wanted at

http://europa.eu.int/comm/enterprise...nery/facts.pdf

http://europa.eu.int/comm/enterprise.../machines.html

There is an EN standard relating to routers EN 50144-2-17. I can't
fing a copy on line but that will almost certainly be where the switch
reference is.




So do you mean that you

Yes

I looked at the offset trenching base that Trend makes.

My router's standard baseplate has too big a central hole, so I made a
few additional ones. One of these is like the Trend base, except that
it's made in two pieces that interlock on a large hexagon. I can
adjust the offset, yet keep the router facing towards me.

..andy

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