Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] trim routers

In a message dated 3/27/2003 6:33:59 PM Central Standard Time,
davemucha@... writes:

> Now I want to move up to a more substantial unit, but it seems the HF unit
> has a straght round cylendrical body, but the Porter-Cable and DeWalts are
> odd shape plastic bodies. no meat to clamp onto.
>
> Does anybody know if there is some sort of trim routers with a round metal
> body that can be used to hold it ?
>
> The larger units have 3-3/4 bodies, but that is way too big.
>

Dave:

The Makita and the red Milwaukee (U.S. make) are the finest "laminate
trimmer" routers made, and the "motor part" IS cylindrical! Only the
commutator- and on-off switch end is "D-shaped". This is no consequence.

I have TRIED hard to crop and zoom a photo of a machine I did for a firm in
England in 84, and will paste it here:
[Unable to display image]Now, that isn't the finest picture I have ever done, but you can see how I
mounted a Makita trim-router in a machined aluminum holder, with that "not
round" part a-stickin' out the top!

Jan Rowland


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