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| Apollo:
Yeah sorry about not posting the answer, bit embarassing really. I was going in the wrong direction with the router as some of you rightly pointed out. |
| RandyT:
Ok, direct question: Assuming that your router spins clockwise, as it should... Were you traveling clockwise around the panel or counter-clockwise? Traveling in either direction shouldn't cause smoke, but one way is going to be a lot harder to control. If you are getting smoke by moving counter-clockwise, you have a different problem. Most likely, the extra force required (which is also what helps keep the router under your control and out of your thigh) was causing the router base to lift from the board and making the blade bind. Only the tips do the cutting, and if the router base tips away from the panel, the blade will start burning. Do this a couple of times and the blade will be shot. Yes, that's the voice of experience ;). RandyT |
| Zakk:
I think saint gets the award for guessing this problem correctly. My own guess, "wood gnomes", was obviously quite wrong as well. 8) |
| Xiaou2:
I think its also a case of pushing to fast and hard forward... If you set the initial Depth to deep and you push really hard forward...the motor will slow down due to the fact its having troubles cutting so deep... and since you are pressing to hard forward with it... it heats the wood up to the point of burning it. Going against the grain as saint said, will compond the issue... as the router has to work much harder to cut. So - use a few passes instead of one deep one, and let the blade do the cutting rather than pressing forward too hard. Wood Gnomes are scared away by the router scream... ^_- |
| OSCAR:
Heh, here's my own story... A couple years ago I purchased a slot cutter and when it came in, I put it in the router and started to cut a t-molding slot. Well, it started to make lots of smoke and the router was jumping around like crazy. By the time I turned off the router, 2 of the 3 teeth were knocked off the blades. When I looked at the slot cutter more carefully, I noticed that the cutter head had been installed upside-down on the mandrel. I didn't even think to check that first, I had assumed that the slot cutter would come assembled correctly. Umm..... no. I felt so foolish about that one, I still don't like to talk about it. :) |
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