OF1400 - Are centering issues still a concern?

[squall_line]

Just for giggles I measured runout today and was totally surprised with the outcome.

How can you leave us hanging like that, man?!?!

 

[Cheese]

One other thing I noticed yesterday when I was fiddling with the 1400, is that when I simply removed the template bushing and reinstalled it, it did not return to its original position.

Then when I removed the template bushing, rotated it 180º and reinstalled it, it aligned itself better than the first position it was in. So it really is a catch-as-catch-can issue with the 1400 and I can't imagine it's any different with the 2200. 

Maybe I'll take a look at the 2200 later today.  [smile]

 

[afish]

and that right there is why I would never pay for 600-1000 for a festool router.  Those are the kind of issues one expects with a $99 dollar special from China. Glad it works for some.

 

[mino]

One other thing I noticed yesterday when I was fiddling with the 1400, is that when I simply removed the template bushing and reinstalled it, it did not return to its original position.

Then when I removed the template bushing, rotated it 180º and reinstalled it, it aligned itself better than the first position it was in. So it really is a catch-as-catch-can issue with the 1400 and I can't imagine it's any different with the 2200. 

Maybe I'll take a look at the 2200 later today.  [smile]

Is it possible that the template is not always co-planar/aligned with the base of the router the same way?

I can imagine this being possible with a cone-shaped interface. In such case only making/having the plane of the template guide co-planar with the router base would make it centered "as intended".

 

[Cheese]

FWIW...I mentioned earlier that I was measuring between .0037"-.0042" of router bit runout on my 1400 and that really seemed excessive. The strange issue was the variance of .0005", that did not make any sense.

I concluded that something else was amiss so I removed the bit & collet and decided to clean everything up with some Dynaglide Plus and a good wipe down.

After everything was clean, I installed a 1/2" diameter dowel pin in the router and measured the runout again, runout was now down to .0008"...now that's more like it.  [big grin]  And I think the dowel pin has a concentricity of .0002"

I'm thinking of keeping a small cap on the collet socket to keep stuff out of the socket when a router bit is not chucked up. The first cap will be put on the CMS/2200 because that socket is just sitting there, upside down and waiting for something to fall inside.

 

[ricleh]

This is the solution to the centering issue that I came up with when playing around with the Woodpeckers template for drilling holes for an MFT style top.  I first made the aluminum bushing that Cheese described in another post and then made a replacement for the Festool guide bushing adapter.  My guide bushing adapter uses the traditional Porter Cable style guide bushings and is quite accurate and repeatable.  I will try to link to my other post.

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