RADIAL ARM ROUTER

Quite an accomplishment!!! I want one ;>) .
Are you a machinist?

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No just a tinkerer

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Tinkerer my foot, you’re a freakin’ genius! If I had the room for a RAS in my shop I’d be all over this one. Did you fabricate the parts yourself or have a machine shop do them up custom for you?

Either way, nice job and I imagine you’ll get plenty of use out of this thing.

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No I just laid it out and put it together and then bandsawed out the hole to hold the router and filed it so the router would slide in.

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Artie, you did a great job fabricating those mounts! It looks like a very helpful tool to have in the shop.

-- Julian, Park Forest, IL

Nice job. Why do you want a router set up like that?

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dayum

That is just freaking AWESOME. Just curious. How welll does it hold it’s configuration? That is to ask, have you found that it stays aligned, square, plumb, and height maintained when used?

Looks like the basis of a 1 ‘man-power’ CNC router system.

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Is that a dewalt 740 ,I just got a dewalt 740 and overhauled it also.great job and thanks

-- eric post, tallahassee FL

Wow, this is SO cool. Great idea and great job building it!

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Great Job Artie
Do ypu have any projects in mind for this great tool ?

Jim

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

Nice job on this. I bet it works great for rabbits and dadoes. They should be nice and straight as a result.

-- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com

When will they be on sale?

-- Joemick

SO many questions and so little time to answer. Well—if I could sell them for enough money then I’d produce them. and yes it does stay where you set it. But if you take too large a cut it could chatter. I think if you built one out of those BIG CAST IRON dewalt saws it would be even more stable/solid. you just have to be sure the work piece is held down well. you don’t want the wood taking off and pulling your hand into the cutter. So if you build one think before you cut. you don’t want to have to hire someone to pick your nose! The best thing is that it is versitile. It is only limited by your amagination. I’m thinking how I might ad a plunge ability. then you could start milling inside an area. so what do you think they would be worth?

-- ART- WINSTED CT. Just Remember! If you walk a mile in another mans shoes ----your a mile away and you've got his shoes!

Besides looking cool and taking off a finger tip or two, what’s the point?

What could you do on this that you can’t do with a fence and a router table?

Does anyone think this tool would be usefull? If so what would you do with it?

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right now i don’t know what i would do with it but it is freeking sweet .

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You did a great job on making this.

I’ve got an old Wards PowerKraft saw with a burned out motor.

This unit had a 20,000 spindle attachment for a router, it worked really good.

I’ll have to do this to it instead of tossing it.

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I think it’s really cool. Routing from overhead and being able to set an angle would be very useful. I hate routing stopped dados when I can’t see where to stop and using a router guide is a real pain if you need accuracy because having only three or four inches of surface makes the router tippy.

I can see a lot of uses for this tool. Put a pin under it and you have yourself a pin router.

This has all the same benefits as a RAS. Accurately moving the tool over the work instead of the work over the tool sometimes has a lot of benefits. Also, being able to see the work is a plus.

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One thing I need to do is cut the carrage down so the router protrudes down a little more because when you have a short bit in the router and tilt it,the carrige can hit the work before the bit or be real close to connecting it. (you know the old story—got to iron out the bugs)

-- ART- WINSTED CT. Just Remember! If you walk a mile in another mans shoes ----your a mile away and you've got his shoes!

Maybe you could use one of these.

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Beast!

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Looks really awesome , but I’d have to use it on some projects to see if it had any advantages to my present set up. Hey , I already thought of one….I could route the groove in my cutting boards more easily with this set up…providing everything was nice and square : ) Thanks for sharing your idea, Artie .

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