I'm thinking of putting the MFK 700 trim router set on my Christmas list and plan to use it to trim edge banding. Is there anything I need beyond what comes in the set to do this (do I need to buy a trim bit or is that part of the set)? Are there any accessories that should be bought right away?
What do I need beyond the MFK 700 set?
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Yes, get the trim bit 491666 or 491670. They are a special size to use in the horizontal 1.5 or 0 degree bases.
Seth
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SRSemenza said:
Go for the 491670 bit. It's just over twice the price of the 491666 bit, but has four times the number of cutting surfaces that can be used, plus if you get a dinged blade mid-job, it's a piece of cake to rotate the blade 90° and keep on truckin'. If you're using iron-on banding, the 1.5° base is great, but if you're using up to 5/8" thick solid banding, the 0° base might be better. Just be sure to dial it in VERY carefully to avoid over-cutting.
Something to note between the two bits is that the one piece has a longer cutting length at 5/8" and the replaceable blade bit is just a touch under 1/2". Which won't matter for thin edge banding but might for solid wood.
Seth
Seth
I usually go for the long view, but in this case I think I'll go for the cheaper option. I'm already pushing it with my Christmas list.
It looks like my next project will combine my woodworking and computer hobbies. I've been buying rack mountable computers as servers in my basement and am finally buying the rack to house them. The bare metal open rack will be 48" tall and have no sides, so I'm planning to build a maple finished cabinet for the rack to sit on and house the UPS units, then I'll build sides that go over both the cabinet and the metal rack to tie it all together. Haven't decided whether I want a door or not yet. The end result will be a 6-7 foot tall fancy looking "personal" computer that could run a medium sized business if it weren't owned by a geek.
It looks like my next project will combine my woodworking and computer hobbies. I've been buying rack mountable computers as servers in my basement and am finally buying the rack to house them. The bare metal open rack will be 48" tall and have no sides, so I'm planning to build a maple finished cabinet for the rack to sit on and house the UPS units, then I'll build sides that go over both the cabinet and the metal rack to tie it all together. Haven't decided whether I want a door or not yet. The end result will be a 6-7 foot tall fancy looking "personal" computer that could run a medium sized business if it weren't owned by a geek.
Because I've always wanted people to check out my stuff and say "nice rack!" [big grin]
I'm enough of a computer geek that most people who think they're computer fanatics look and think I'm pretty out there. I'm not into gaming, but seem to be jazzed about having my own little data center which runs my personal domain, supports a complete development environment, and could run a fair sized business. There are currently 3 virtualization "cloud" servers and one NAS to keep everything, then another machine acting as a firewall.
Here is the before picture to my next project. All the servers are rack mountable, but just a homebrew rack setup. I'd love it to look more professional. These rack mount machines replace a collection of older traditional PC boxes which are in a big pile to go away, the new setup is much smaller.
I'm enough of a computer geek that most people who think they're computer fanatics look and think I'm pretty out there. I'm not into gaming, but seem to be jazzed about having my own little data center which runs my personal domain, supports a complete development environment, and could run a fair sized business. There are currently 3 virtualization "cloud" servers and one NAS to keep everything, then another machine acting as a firewall.
Here is the before picture to my next project. All the servers are rack mountable, but just a homebrew rack setup. I'd love it to look more professional. These rack mount machines replace a collection of older traditional PC boxes which are in a big pile to go away, the new setup is much smaller.
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The devices all have their own cooling fans and the rack will allow airflow from front to back. Here's a labeled photo. The "cloud" servers are 3 machines that act as around 20 "virtual" computers. The Network Attached Storage (NAS) box right above cloud1 & 2 hold all the storage for the virtual machines plus the shared storage for all the desktop/laptops in the house. Each machine is hooked to its own UPS box so it can be notified of a power outage, but the house has a generator so the UPS's only have to last about 15 seconds before the generator kicks in. The firewall box is a general computer I built with the pfSense software to act as the firewall. The KVM box above it allows all these computers to share one keyboard/mouse/monitor. The ethernet switch is the main hub where everything connects together (the rest of the house plugs in here as well). Camera is a box some cameras plug into and become available on the network. VOIP ties the house phones into the network. WLAN is one of the 3 wireless network points. Backup is the temporary external drive acting as a 3rd failure protection for the NAS (which can survive a single drive failure on its own - the most valuable data on the NAS (family photos) are also backed up to Amazon Glacier in case the house burns down or gets hit by a meteor. Since that backup drive isn't going to be big enough for long I'm going to make the cloud3 machine into a new NAS box which will use spare hard drives to backup the main NAS, then I'll just get another thin virtualization server.
But the real activity is on the 3 cloud machines. In various virtual machines I'm running a PBX system, web server, database, Jenkins continuous build system, a home automation system I wrote, virtual Windows Home Server 2011 machine which does full backups of all the Windows machines in the house. I even run the email for my domains, DHCP and DNS (both internal and external) servers in virtual machines as well as network health monitoring and monitoring/controlling the generator. The home automation "brain" I wrote controls various lighting and security features of the house and provides useful information (weather, customized news, other stuff).
The fact that I know how to do all this stuff is how I pay for my Festool habit.
But the real activity is on the 3 cloud machines. In various virtual machines I'm running a PBX system, web server, database, Jenkins continuous build system, a home automation system I wrote, virtual Windows Home Server 2011 machine which does full backups of all the Windows machines in the house. I even run the email for my domains, DHCP and DNS (both internal and external) servers in virtual machines as well as network health monitoring and monitoring/controlling the generator. The home automation "brain" I wrote controls various lighting and security features of the house and provides useful information (weather, customized news, other stuff).
The fact that I know how to do all this stuff is how I pay for my Festool habit.
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A setup like that using windows [scared] ? It should be UNIX based! Maybe OpenBSD?
I kid of course. It seems that there is more security in unix systems, but the money is in MS (Windows)! I'm sure your setup is perfectly secure and it sounds like you've done a nice bit of customization to get what you need.
Back to the tools - looking forward to seeing the end product!
Thanks,
dr
I kid of course. It seems that there is more security in unix systems, but the money is in MS (Windows)! I'm sure your setup is perfectly secure and it sounds like you've done a nice bit of customization to get what you need.
Back to the tools - looking forward to seeing the end product!
Thanks,
dr
No no no! The cloud servers themselves are running a minimal Server Ubuntu linux, the NAS is Synology's flavor of Linux, the firewall is a variation of freeBSD. Nothing in the picture is running Windows at the moment. I am capable of running Windows as a guest virtual machine to test something, but not at the moment. The virtual machines are currently mostly Ubuntu with a CentOS and freeBSD thrown in for variety as well as one Windows Home Server 2011 only because it is a great bare metal backup/restore solution for the Windows machines we're running on desktop/laptop machines.
I'm a tried and true Unix fan, the server machines these replaced were running Linux that I had compiled from source code.
I'm a tried and true Unix fan, the server machines these replaced were running Linux that I had compiled from source code.
OK, got the new rack yesterday - it's 48" tall, 19" wide and 28" deep and has a claimed capacity of 1000Lbs though I don't expect to approach that. I want to build a maple plywood cabinet for it to sit on which will raise it by about 18 inches. The cabinet will hold the UPS units and I'd like it to be as open as possible on the front and back for airflow and access, especially the front. What I'm wondering is what I need to do to prevent the cabinet from folding under the weight - need to reinforce the corners. Ive considered doubling up the left and right side walls so the top would sit on the edge of the inner piece of plywood. Not sure that's necessary if I make the top sit on the sides instead of between them like you'd do for a kitchen cabinet. Another idea is to make a 3/4 plywood back which is mostly cut out.
Any thoughts? I've got a Domino, pocket hole jig, pretty much any options are on the table.
Any thoughts? I've got a Domino, pocket hole jig, pretty much any options are on the table.
