1010 copy ring set

[southern_guy]

I enquired of the local festool dealer about the copy ring set mentioned in Jerry Work's manual for the MFS. The response was that this was a custom item and I should get my local engineering shop to make me a set of brass bushes. I know that the set described by Jerry is not a festool catalogue item, but would have thought that festool could provide it here, so I am a little peeved with this response. From a practical point of view though, it may be just as easy for me to get some brass bushes made.
The local dealer indicated that the base plate for the copy ring set was just a standard festool copy ring. Is this the case? From the perspective of one who has copy rings for the 1010 router, would it be feasible just to get an engineering shop to make a couple of bushes, with a groove in the hole in the middle for a rubber o-ring?

 

[Brice Burrell]

  What are you trying to do? What size ring are you after?  Are you looking to rout for inlays so you want to bit ring combintions to work for that perpose? I don't have Festool rings for the 1010, So I can't be of any help there, sorry.

 

[southern_guy]

yes, I want to do inlays. I have a house lot of doors were I want to move the door handles down.

 

[Brice Burrell]

You do know Festool offer set that will work that are stock items?? See my review of the MFS400 MFS 700 on the second page I show the sets, post #32 and links to the Festool site of the rings on the last post.

Edit, let me rephrase, not sets of rings, individual rings. See link.

 

[Bill in seattle]

S.g.
Festool offers 7 different copy rings to fit your of1010.
you can also use the guide bushing adapter , 469625  which should have come with your router. This will hold any of the very common industry standard two piece guide bushings that are offered in probably 15+ different sizes.  There are some inlay bushing kits that will fit this adapter or you can do some simple math and come up with your own combinations for different bit sizes. A small tip: the smaller the bit and the deeper you go the more prone they are to breaking in my experience.
Brice also did a great editorial on using the mfs system for inlays. I'd look at it.
Bill