Zero Clearance Inserts and Height Adjustment

I appreciate the offer… but did you check your local hardware store? I had to buy some for my router plate last week and they are readily available and cheap (at least in my area).

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But this way he can have 50 zero insert plates.

I’m a lot stingier. I use pine, not good Baltic birch.

-- No piece is cut too short. It was meant for a smaller project.

If you can find a market for selling those screws @ the Grizzly price….WELL THEN!!! You could go on vacation a lot more often. ;-D

-- Lane Custom Guitars and Basses

Let me see if I got this right; you didn’t want to spend $4 so you spent $7.50 and now have 196 screws left over? LOL That’s the American way. I’m laughing with you, pardner, I do it too.

-- Thos. Angle

We loose money on every product we sell, but make up for it on volume.

I’ll keep your offer in mind,
Steve

-- Stevethepeeve -- I'm no rocket surgeon

Zero clearance inserts are a good idea in general. I found the hardwood ones that I would make tended to warp, cup or sag over time. I now use the (Phlemonic? Phlomonic? Phelmonic? Phlobotomy? Phelmonic?) ...plastic ones.

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Thos.

I want to have about 8 inserts in the following formats…

1 for the blade set at the standard 90 degrees
1 for the blade set at 45 degrees
1 for a dado set to 3/4”
1 for a dado set to 1/2”
1 for a dado set to 1/4”
Dado’s set for standard plywood thicknesses, (so three more there).

That would have been $32 plus shipping. I think I saved some money doing it this way.

-- Owen Johnson - aka IowaWoodcrafter

I typically just use duct/masking tape to level my zero-clearance inserts. Cheap and effective if there is only a little bit of adjustment to do.

Hey Blake: That’s Phenolic ;-) I just use 1/2” MDF, seems to be very stable.

-- Mark, Webster New York, Visit my website at http://thecraftsmanspath.com

I use 1/2 cabinet grade plywood and make about 5-7 at a time. Then I glue a thin piece of wood in each
corner thicker than needed. Then I run them all through my drum sander to sand down the pieces of wood until they are the right thickness to make the plate sit flush with my top.

Never any adjustment needed after that.

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

You did good. Just pulling your leg.

-- Thos. Angle