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Brax:

--- Quote from: JoeJoe97 on June 06, 2006, 06:23:02 am ---I did my tmolding when the cab was assembled.  It went fairly well.  The only problem was a few spots where I must have hit a screw, and the router jumped big time.  I took out a few chunks of laminate, one of them catching me about a half inch below the eye.

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A FEW spots? You you continued after you hit ONE!? Laminate is the least or your worries. If a piece of carbide router bit hits you at 30,000 RPM, you're DEAD. It's probably obvious to you by now, but that was beyond careless. Never ever, ever, EVER use a router if you think fasteners are nearby. Offsetting any fasteners by 2" from any edge that is going to be routed is a bare minimum. It's for this reason that I do all my routing before assembly. It's no harder; it just takes planning.

Take your time and respect your tools.

Spaz Monkey:
Making sure the bit is sett correctly reminds me when I was trying to get some broken dowels out of my futon... " @#$%!, why aren't the @#$%! dowels getting  @#$%! drilled out?!?!  Just got this  @#$%! drill bit  @#$%! two- @#$%! days ago.  Why won't this @#$%! bit bite?"    :badmood:  I was putting my weight into the drill; smelt like I was using a wood-burning iron to take out the dowels.

Took me 5 minutes to realize had the drill in "reverse".   :banghead:  Only took me 2 minutes to do the job.  I was having a very bad day that day...

Crafty:
Right on BRAX.

There are a few postings around here dealing with near misses in the use (??? misuse) of powertools.

We all need to remember that these things bite.

There is no point cutting corners in a rush to complete a project when we ultimately would like 2 hands to play or 2 eyes to see the completed product

I work in a major hospital and the risks far out weigh any benefits

BE CAREFUL               :soapbox:

bleemus:
The only other piece of information that I can offer is to be sure that you can easily see where you are routing.  Just because it "feels" like it is in the correct position, it might not be.

I didn't feel like leaning over my cabinet when I routed a couple places where I had to cover up the previous routing track with bondo.   At first I had the router bit up to where I couldn't see it, but it felt securely in the previous routing track.  It felt like I was cutting fine for a inch or 2, until I found out I had ran out of the groove and put a huge gash in it... good thing it was on the top, the t-molding covers it right up, but it could've been disastrous.

One more piece of advice, do routing before painting; I scratched up my paint job when I had to do some post-painting routing.

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