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30mm router bush bodge...
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 -- Jim K ----Android NewsGroup Reader---- http://usenet.sinaapp.com/ |
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30mm router bush bodge...
On 31/08/16 16:34, 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 Some years ago I bought an expensive worktop template and the tool shop sold me a bush which was not actually a Hitachi part but which seemed to fit the router okay. The first thing I did with it was to ruin the brand new template - the bush was not quite 'tall' enough and I made a big ugly cut into the template edge, making it useless for ever more. So my only advice is to take great care. TW |
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30mm router bush bodge...
TimW Wrote in message:
On 31/08/16 16:34, 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 Some years ago I bought an expensive worktop template and the tool shop sold me a bush which was not actually a Hitachi part but which seemed to fit the router okay. The first thing I did with it was to ruin the brand new template - the bush was not quite 'tall' enough and I made a big ugly cut into the template edge, making it useless for ever more. So my only advice is to take great care. TW Noted, thanks. -- Jim K ----Android NewsGroup Reader---- http://usenet.sinaapp.com/ |
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30mm router bush bodge...
On 31/08/2016 16:34, 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. A photo would be good... 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? Auxiliary base would probably be the way to go. 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... It probably does not matter much since you will be using long reach worktop cutters for the job. -- Cheers, John. /================================================== ===============\ | Internode Ltd - http://www.internode.co.uk | |-----------------------------------------------------------------| | John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk | \================================================= ================/ |
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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 -- Jim K ----Android NewsGroup Reader---- http://usenet.sinaapp.com/ Trend sell a replacement base plate which will fit most routers and which in turn will take standard bushes https://www.trenddirectuk.com/unibase |
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