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Machining a groove in wood
I have a 800mm piece of wood that I want to cut a 5mm wide grove in (to a
depth of about 6mm). I dont have a router but I do have a cheap pillar drill. Is there a bit that I could use (with a suitable guide for my wood) that would let me route with my drill? (The wood in question is one leg of a tripod base Ikea lamp. The power cord dangles down the middle at present and I think it would look a whole lot better if I could hide the wire along the inside of one leg.) https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/lauters...hite-40405046/ Tim -- Please don't feed the trolls |
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On 17/08/2019 14:51, Tim+ wrote:
I have a 800mm piece of wood that I want to cut a 5mm wide grove in (to a depth of about 6mm). I dont have a router but I do have a cheap pillar drill. Is there a bit that I could use (with a suitable guide for my wood) that would let me route with my drill? (The wood in question is one leg of a tripod base Ikea lamp. The power cord dangles down the middle at present and I think it would look a whole lot better if I could hide the wire along the inside of one leg.) https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/lauters...hite-40405046/ Tim Router bits have a parallel shank and you can grip them in your drill chuck easily enough. Router speeds are higher though, so you'll find you'll have to go slowly so as not to be forcing the work along. You'll usually find that you can set the stop to prevent the bit being lowered too far and once down, you can lock the quill of the drill to stop it retracting too - on cheap drills the latter is usually just a grubscrew in the casting. SteveW |
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On Saturday, 17 August 2019 14:51:51 UTC+1, Tim+ wrote:
I have a 800mm piece of wood that I want to cut a 5mm wide grove in (to a depth of about 6mm). I dont have a router but I do have a cheap pillar drill. Is there a bit that I could use (with a suitable guide for my wood) that would let me route with my drill? (The wood in question is one leg of a tripod base Ikea lamp. The power cord dangles down the middle at present and I think it would look a whole lot better if I could hide the wire along the inside of one leg.) https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/lauters...hite-40405046/ Tim drills hate side forces on the bearings Do it with a saw. NT |
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On Saturday, 17 August 2019 14:51:51 UTC+1, Tim+ wrote: I have a 800mm piece of wood that I want to cut a 5mm wide grove in (to a depth of about 6mm). I dont have a router but I do have a cheap pillar drill. Is there a bit that I could use (with a suitable guide for my wood) that would let me route with my drill? (The wood in question is one leg of a tripod base Ikea lamp. The power cord dangles down the middle at present and I think it would look a whole lot better if I could hide the wire along the inside of one leg.) https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/lauters...hite-40405046/ Tim drills hate side forces on the bearings I dont care. Its a cheap pillar drill that hardly gets any use. As long as the bearings last long enough to one decent cut thatll do me. Do it with a saw. No suitable saw. I was wondering about a milling bit. Maybe something like this? https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?m... 323868675825 Tim -- Please don't feed the trolls |
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On Saturday, 17 August 2019 16:17:36 UTC+1, Tim+ wrote:
wrote: On Saturday, 17 August 2019 14:51:51 UTC+1, Tim+ wrote: I have a 800mm piece of wood that I want to cut a 5mm wide grove in (to a depth of about 6mm). I dont have a router but I do have a cheap pillar drill. Is there a bit that I could use (with a suitable guide for my wood) that would let me route with my drill? (The wood in question is one leg of a tripod base Ikea lamp. The power cord dangles down the middle at present and I think it would look a whole lot better if I could hide the wire along the inside of one leg.) https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/lauters...hite-40405046/ Tim drills hate side forces on the bearings I dont care. Its a cheap pillar drill that hardly gets any use. As long as the bearings last long enough to one decent cut thatll do me. Do it with a saw. No suitable saw. Any saw will do the job. |
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On 17/08/2019 15:05, wrote:
On Saturday, 17 August 2019 14:51:51 UTC+1, Tim+ wrote: I have a 800mm piece of wood that I want to cut a 5mm wide grove in (to a depth of about 6mm). I dont have a router but I do have a cheap pillar drill. Is there a bit that I could use (with a suitable guide for my wood) that would let me route with my drill? (The wood in question is one leg of a tripod base Ikea lamp. The power cord dangles down the middle at present and I think it would look a whole lot better if I could hide the wire along the inside of one leg.) https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/lauters...hite-40405046/ Tim drills hate side forces on the bearings Do it with a saw. NT Do you have a 5mm wide wood chisel ?. If so cut a slot manually |
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On 17/08/2019 19:16, Andrew wrote:
Do you have a 5mm wide wood chisel ?. If so cut a slot manually Do the sides with a stanley knife first Bill |
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If you are a DIYer what are you doing without a circular saw? Aldi have two on offer one at £49.99 and one at £59.99, they are probably cheap and cheerful but will probably do a better job than any solution using a pillar drill as a router. You never know you might even find some uses in other jobs .
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On Sunday, 18 August 2019 17:08:18 UTC+1, Tricky Dicky wrote:
If you are a DIYer what are you doing without a circular saw? Aldi have two on offer one at £49.99 and one at £59.99, they are probably cheap and cheerful but will probably do a better job than any solution using a pillar drill as a router. You never know you might even find some uses in other jobs . Richard A usable router can be had for even less! |
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On Sunday, 18 August 2019 17:08:18 UTC+1, Tricky Dicky wrote:
If you are a DIYer what are you doing without a circular saw? quite Aldi have two on offer one at £49.99 and one at £59.99, they are probably cheap and cheerful but will probably do a better job than any solution using a pillar drill as a router. You never know you might even find some uses in other jobs . Richard Skip the Aldi tools, get a machine mart / Clarke for the same price. Much better. I've had too many failures with Aldi stuff. NT |
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, Tim+ wrote: I have a 800mm piece of wood that I want to cut a 5mm wide grove in (to a depth of about 6mm). I dont have a router but I do have a cheap pillar drill. Is there a bit that I could use (with a suitable guide for my wood) that would let me route with my drill? (The wood in question is one leg of a tripod base Ikea lamp. The power cord dangles down the middle at present and I think it would look a whole lot better if I could hide the wire along the inside of one leg.) https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/lauters...hite-40405046/ Have you got a circular saw? Two cuts to the correct depth and chisel out the waste. -- *Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker? * Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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On 17/08/2019 14:51, Tim+ wrote:
I have a 800mm piece of wood that I want to cut a 5mm wide grove in (to a depth of about 6mm). I dont have a router but I do have a cheap pillar drill. Is there a bit that I could use (with a suitable guide for my wood) that would let me route with my drill? (The wood in question is one leg of a tripod base Ikea lamp. The power cord dangles down the middle at present and I think it would look a whole lot better if I could hide the wire along the inside of one leg.) https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/lauters...hite-40405046/ Tim You may well ruin the drill. Drills aren't designed for force to be applied 'side on', routers are. You could drill a series of holes and then try to a 'make shift' router. That would reduce the side on force. An alternative is plough plane, if you can't borrow a router. |
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On 17/08/2019 14:51, Tim+ wrote:
I have a 800mm piece of wood that I want to cut a 5mm wide grove in (to a depth of about 6mm). I dont have a router but I do have a cheap pillar drill. Is there a bit that I could use (with a suitable guide for my wood) that would let me route with my drill? (The wood in question is one leg of a tripod base Ikea lamp. The power cord dangles down the middle at present and I think it would look a whole lot better if I could hide the wire along the inside of one leg.) https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/lauters...hite-40405046/ Nothing in principle to stop you using a router bit in the drill with suitable fence etc clamped in place to guide the work. The max speed on the drill press will be *significantly* lower than a typical router (20k rpm would be good for that size of cutter), so you will have to feed the work very slowly and take it easy on what is quite a small cutter. I would suggest using a two or three passes to get to the full depth. -- Cheers, John. /================================================== ===============\ | Internode Ltd - http://www.internode.co.uk | |-----------------------------------------------------------------| | John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk | \================================================= ================/ |
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I have a 800mm piece of wood that I want to cut a 5mm wide grove in (to a depth of about 6mm). https://ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_udhi=10&_nkw=plough%20plane&LH_PrefLoc=1 |
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