Chris Hughes
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So we set up this 18' radius stick and mount a 1010 to it to cut a template for this shallow arch we have to build up. It is my bosses' first time cutting a segment with a router so I helped with the setup and thought I would shoot the cut on my iPod to post on the forum. Well I'm watching the cut through the camera and about half way through the template starts smoking like crazy and I tell him to shut it down. I went over to see what is going on and I see a nice column of smoke coming up from the channel we just cut and the 1010 is smoking from under the base. The saw dust is on fire. Well bad judgement kicked in and I decided we needed to clear the channel but with out disassembling the radius jig and hold down rig we set up to make this cut. Now I have heard of vacuums starting on fire but never saw it close up. Well let me tell you that within seconds the vac was on fire.
I lost a long life bag, two filters, and toasted the inside of my ct. It sucks but at least I learned a lesson. It turns out that my up cut spiral bit pulled itself down and was cut through the sacrificial sheet and was cutting concrete thus the hot spot.
I lost a long life bag, two filters, and toasted the inside of my ct. It sucks but at least I learned a lesson. It turns out that my up cut spiral bit pulled itself down and was cut through the sacrificial sheet and was cutting concrete thus the hot spot.