CMS "start pin/finger" for 3rd party router tables?

[fritter63]

Has anyone seen a product, similar to the CMS start finger, for 3rd party routers and tables? I'm interested in the
part that lets you feed a template routed part into the bit without risk of kickback from starting at the wrong point
(don't ask why I know this is a problem!)

I don't think it'd be that hard to make something, but am curious if there an OTS product?

Thanks.

 

[mouppe]

I used to have a freud top that had a pin that screwed into it but that was unadjustable and not much use.

 

[fritter63]

Yeah, I have one of those , and I still got a guitar neck thrown across the room by it!

 

[rst]

My Bench Dog lift has a removable threaded pin start.  It would not be that hard to make one.  Either have machinist make a threaded pin or use a long (1"/ 1 1/2") bolt with a hollow rod over it and drill and tap your existing insert to accept the bolt.  Before I had the Bench Dog lift that is what I used.  Probably should use at least a 1/4" bolt (I used a 5/16"). 

 

[fritter63]

So to clarify, it's not the pin I'm after- I have one- it's the guide  finger.

 

[Rob-GB]

From experience on big old spindle moulders/shapers with no guide pin or CMS finger guide (which is brilliant IMHO) my way to deal with the issue was to make the template longer on the feed in and feed out ends and use the template itself to guide the piece into either a ring fence or block bearing. ( ring fences should act in the same way as the CMS finger but often they are replacement items made by well meaning metal workers who don't really know what it is they are trying to make and how it is meant to function).
Or you could just buy the festool one from the spares catalogue and incorporate it.

Rob.