vs 600 jig bushes

[KeithS]

Hi all
I have been looking at the vs600 dovetail jig but it looks like you can only use a festool router
because of the bushes.
Is it possible to fit the festool bushes to an elu177 do you think.

Many thanks
Keith

 

[Brice Burrell]

Keith, not likely. Festool bushings are made specifically to fit Festool router models.

 

[KeithS]

Thanks Brice , just what I thought.

 

[AlexThePalex]

Everything is adaptable. A good metalworker has this fixed in no time. I would.

 

[tbellemare]

I'm not certain but I would think you could use metric PC guide rings. You may have to grind them down so they are shallower, the Festool templates are not big fingers like typical dovetail jigs.

The Festool bits are meant for an 8 mm collet also.

I will see if I can find out more definitively tomorrow.

Tom

 

[woodshopdemos]

Hi all
I have been looking at the vs600 dovetail jig but it looks like you can only use a festool router
because of the bushes.
Is it possible to fit the festool bushes to an elu177 do you think.

Many thanks
Keith

Keith,
  Yes you can. Leigh makes an adapter that can be fitted. But that said, there is something special about the Festool guides...they have a lip on them so that once you insert  the router into the finger, it will minimize the chance of tipping the router and worse, removing a spinning  router off the jig without coming cleanly out.

Here is a small picture of the router and its base:

and the page: http://www.woodshopdemos.com/fes-33.htm

if you go a page further you will see this picture with the guide I was talking about.

Probably the best way to do what you want to do is to buy a OF1010 base plate and use it as you base for VS600 operations.

 

[Michael Kellough]

John said, "Probably the best way to do what you want to do is to buy a OF1010 base plate and use it as you base for VS600 operations."

Would that work? Don't the bushings lock into the metal base
of the router rather than the removable plate?

 

[tbellemare]

I just had a conversation with Rick Bush (at Festool) to verify that my thinking is logical...

What I said about using a PC-style, metric copy ring would work. You just need to have the correct diameter for the template being used and make sure the depth works, which means it might have to be ground down a little.

Tom

 

[KeithS]

Hi all
Thanks for all the replys, Tom I think you may have the answer, will look into this a bit closer tomorrow.
It was the shape of the festool bushes that I was worried about but a normal bush of the necesary diameter should do,
it just will not lock onto the fingers as the festools do.

Thanks
Keith

 

[tbellemare]

it just will not lock onto the fingers as the festools do

You are correct, Sir!

Tom