Chip Catcher for 1400 (492732)

lnagel

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Has anyone taken their chip catcher apart and put it back together?  Well, I took mine apart and am having some difficulty putting humpt-dumpty back together.  Called Festool and I am still having trouble.  Any hints (like photos) appreciated.
 
Good, now I don't have to mess with resizing pictures. The puzzle is only 3 pieces so it doesn't leave too many options to do it wrong, but WHY did you take it apart in the first place?
 
Why did I remove it?  I'm asking myself the same question.  I was using the wide base for the 1400.  The metal ring that I was using was too ribbed and I was getting no dust collection.  I thought I would use the metal ring from the chip collector, which is completely unobstructed, and would get some decent dust collection.  Wrong!!  Didn't do a thing.  So I had a lot of chips, but got the job done.  My router bit was too big for the chip collector, and the chip catcher would hit the MFT 1080 table.
BTW I was making a quilt rack.  The legs are 1 1/2" thick.
Thanks for responding.  I consider myself a novice, but am willing to listen and learn.  I tried to attach a photo of the quilt rack, but the file is too large.  If you wish, I could e-mail it to you.
 
Ha, I just went to get the thing to take it apart, thinking I would hate myself if I broke it or couldn't get it back together myself. When it turned out to be easy, I couldn't find the bluetooth dongle to get the pics out of my cellphone. Then I got my regular digicam, but refreshed the page first, and saw you figured it out.
As to being a novice, I am not as good a woodworker as many of the posters here, I hardly made any furniture- like objects, I am a tooljunk, that works as a general contractor and do mostly rougher carpentry-work (installing doors, fascia etc.) but when I see other people's projects here I often get the itch to finally clean-up/organize the "shop" properly  and make something.
As to the file size thing; I have tried illustrating a post with pictures, sometimes I wrote a very long post, just to get an error message that the picture I was trying to attach was to big, and lost all the text,  and didn't bother starting over. You can always upload a picture to a picture host and put a link here.
 
You can use this free software Ifranview to downsize you pic's so they will load here. Seems like 400x650 works best for me.
 
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