If you could only buy two Festool routers...

[peter halle]

Jesse,

[big grin] [big grin] [thumbs up]

Peter

 

[hhh]

I have all of FT's and PC's routers - most are 2 of each.  IF I had to get just two FT routers:
2200 and 1400 - general purpose
2200 and 700 -- if you do a lot of trim

 

[lambeater]

I could and I did, got both the 1400 and 700 work as a perfect combo.
thx
Lambeater

 

[tiralie]

I had to jury rig an offcut to keep the OF2200 stable and square and there were a few places where I couldn't use the 'below the deck' dust shroud, so it was a little messy.  But the bottom line is that I did in about 20 minutes what I used to spend on couple of days on.

Jesse:
How long was the router bit you used to cut those 2" legs or did you mill one side and then flip it and mill the other side?
Tim

 

[GPowers]

I could and I did, got both the 1400 and 700 work as a perfect combo.
thx
Lambeater

Dito and I have the PC 7518 in a router table.

 

[Jesse Cloud]

I had to jury rig an offcut to keep the OF2200 stable and square and there were a few places where I couldn't use the 'below the deck' dust shroud, so it was a little messy.  But the bottom line is that I did in about 20 minutes what I used to spend on couple of days on.

Jesse:
How long was the router bit you used to cut those 2" legs or did you mill one side and then flip it and mill the other side?
Tim

The bit is a Freud pattern bit with 2 inches cutting height.  I cut it in one pass.  Somehow, when I flip it, I always have some cleanup to do.  My goal (not completely met this time) is one pass shaping with no cleanup.

I do flip when I have tricky grain on the edge and I want to reverse the direction to avoid tearout.  With the power and the stability of the 2200 I didn't have any tearout at all.

 

[Michael1960]

Hi Jesse
Could you explain what you mean by setting up a 'jury rig'.
Thanks
Michael

 

[Alan m]

Hi Jesse
Could you explain what you mean by setting up a 'jury rig'.
Thanks
Michael

im not sure of the historic meaning of jury rig but usually people use that phrase when they had to improvise or bodge a set up to make it wonk like the way you would knock up a few supports if you had to hold up something while fitting it. anythi9ng at all will do as long aas its safe and strong

 

[Jesse Cloud]

What's a "jury rig"?

Alan explained it quite well - a bodge or a wonk!  Here in New Mexico USA, we might call it a chapuza.

The Wikipedia article says its an old nautical term for a temporary repair using whatever materials and tools are available, perhaps from the French "jour" implying that the repair is only meant to last for a day.  That sounds about like what I did.

The issue was keeping the OF2200 from tilting so that the cut would be square to the leg face.  I simply saved the off-cut from bandsawing out the leg, cut a piece of ply the same thickness as my pattern in the shape of the offcut and pinned it onto the offcut.  That allowed me to place the offcut close to the leg so that the OF2200 could straddle over the two and stay stable and square.  Not pretty, I'll probably toss it today.  I would make something more robust if I were making a large order of chairs.

 

[Michael1960]

Thanks Jesse and Alan for your explanations.  Sounds like clever improvising...
Regards, Michael