Keith Thomas
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I am not sure if anyone else has this problem. I had it with my old router plate also , to a slightly lesser degree with the Jesse plate I switched to. the router would not come up far enough. The router collet would be low so the bit shank could not go down as far as I would like to have the bit profile above the table AND have the bit seated all the way in the collet. With small bits I didn't care to much but it always bothered me with panel bits and other large bits like that. Seems un safe and I feel like I was getting a little extra vibration though that could have been my imagination. I would end up with over a 5/8" of shank showing and even with the bit set that high it would only leave me with maybe an 1/8" to raise the router further up if I needed to make adjustments to the cut.
So I decided to do something about it and it was pretty simple. I'm not ever going to use the router out of the table. its a Hitachi m12v2 by the way. so I took it off the guide tubes and took out the springs and any spring guides but that didn't help. So upon further inspection I decided the the only solution was to cut the tube down. This router had one tube taller than the other and the tall one bottomed out on something in the router. so I cut a little more than a 1/2" off that tube. Now
the the collet almost sits flush with the top of my router plate. Bits can be fully seated like they should.
Has any one else had that problem?
So I decided to do something about it and it was pretty simple. I'm not ever going to use the router out of the table. its a Hitachi m12v2 by the way. so I took it off the guide tubes and took out the springs and any spring guides but that didn't help. So upon further inspection I decided the the only solution was to cut the tube down. This router had one tube taller than the other and the tall one bottomed out on something in the router. so I cut a little more than a 1/2" off that tube. Now
the the collet almost sits flush with the top of my router plate. Bits can be fully seated like they should.
Has any one else had that problem?