Tricked-out overarm pin router
Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2016 10:53 pm
A couple of years ago, a nice stand-alone Shopsmith overarm pin router followed me home from Craigslist. I'm finally getting it equipped and in service, and it is awesome. This is it's story.
First things first, a teaser shot, fully loaded.
Next, the aftermath of milling 1/4" x 1/4" grooves (for tongue and groove paneling) on some 250 linear feet of Sycamore hardwood, using the undertable router.
What you see in this photo is the entire complement of escaped sawdust from almost 100 yards of grooving. Meanwhile the lumber lost upwards of 200 cubic inches of volume, filling up about three five-gallon buckets with shavings with the help of a Dust Deputy. Doing the under-table router duty was a 15A, 3-1/4 hp Triton TRA-001 router. It never complained, and barely got warm. For dust-collection hookup details, see reible's thread. I did have to turn a custom dust-manifold block to connect the various hoses. It's still unfinished, and temporarily clamped in place under the table, but by golly it works just fine. To drive home that point, here is a close-up photo of all that escaped sawdust.
First things first, a teaser shot, fully loaded.
Next, the aftermath of milling 1/4" x 1/4" grooves (for tongue and groove paneling) on some 250 linear feet of Sycamore hardwood, using the undertable router.
What you see in this photo is the entire complement of escaped sawdust from almost 100 yards of grooving. Meanwhile the lumber lost upwards of 200 cubic inches of volume, filling up about three five-gallon buckets with shavings with the help of a Dust Deputy. Doing the under-table router duty was a 15A, 3-1/4 hp Triton TRA-001 router. It never complained, and barely got warm. For dust-collection hookup details, see reible's thread. I did have to turn a custom dust-manifold block to connect the various hoses. It's still unfinished, and temporarily clamped in place under the table, but by golly it works just fine. To drive home that point, here is a close-up photo of all that escaped sawdust.