{"id":2289,"date":"2008-12-10T20:32:40","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T01:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hogonice.com\/?p=2289"},"modified":"2008-12-10T20:32:40","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T01:32:40","slug":"router-mania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/?p=2289","title":{"rendered":"Router Mania"},"content":{"rendered":"

How Many is Enough?<\/em><\/p>\n

I thought people were kidding when they left comments saying they had several routers. Now I can see how that happens.<\/p>\n

I got a big ol’ plunge router, intending to put it in a table. Now it’s installed. So I have no handheld plunge router. Sure, I can uninstall it when I want to use it. And I could also do my routing using a sharpened spoon. It’s not going to happen.<\/p>\n

The router experts say you need a nice fixed-base router AND a nice plunge router, but you don’t want a giant one like my table router, because the little ones are easier to handle.<\/p>\n

I need to get rid of my old Sears table. Maybe I should keep the router.<\/p>\n

Here’s something cool. A Greek guy named Dino has come up with a strange rail-based system<\/a> for routers and circular saws. It’s amazing. You can cut 8-foot sheets of lumber accurately with this thing. You can get near-furniture-quality cuts with a 24-tooth saw. He has a thing that connects a router to it, standing up, and you can move the router around like a CNC deal. You can literally write your name with it. Although now that I think about it, that’s pretty easy with a router you hold in your hands.<\/p>\n

There are other track-based systems, but his is the most interesting, because it’s just one lone nut, competing with Festool and Dewalt.<\/p>\n

I have to make dust collection a priority. I wish I could blow it out into the yard, but as I have pointed out previously, it’s not easy to make a machine that both sucks and blows. Maybe I should just pressurize the garage with my compressor and run a Y-shaped hose from the fence and router to the yard. Will the compressor be big enough? Maybe I can find a surplus jet engine. And perhaps I could put wings on the garage while I’m at it.<\/p>\n

Sooner or later I really have to build something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How Many is Enough? I thought people were kidding when they left comments saying they had several routers. Now I can see how that happens. I got a big ol’ plunge router, intending to put it in a table. Now it’s installed. So I have no handheld plunge router. Sure, I can uninstall it when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}