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Re: request router recommendation

7/8/19, 1:47 PM #26

Jim Dillon
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Re: Discontinued Porter-Cable 3102

Jim Dillon

Steve, the collet issue is a common complaint with this wonderful router. The first time it happened to me, I really didn't think I would get the collet loose. Then I read somewhere that tapping the collet with the collet wrench would loosen it. That worked for me and now I am very careful not to tighten the collet too much which is easy to do. Jim

Re: request router recommendation

7/9/19, 12:00 AM #27

Kneale Brownson
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Re: Discontinued Porter-Cable 3102

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Keeping it all clean also is essential.

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I’m a fairly spry 82-year-old who had been a reader/participant at WoodCentral since the demise of Badger Pond. I started visiting BP to learn something about finish for a project I’d completed and became hooked on internet forums as a way of increasing my knowledge about all sorts of topics. I have been a moderator for a couple other forums on subjects I enjoy. My interest in woodworking began in the early 1970’s when my wife and I had contractors add to our house near Traverse City, MI, and I ended up doing the trim work to reduce mounting costs. I had no tools. I bought a P-C skilsaw, hammer, screwdrivers and one of those wooden miter boxes with a backsaw. I made trim for windows and doors from one-by lumber and started my woodworking career. At the same time, I started a 50-year career as a ski instructor. I got onto the night shift at a mental hospital so I could ski days, and spent my 30s and 40s with that schedule. I eventually replaced the PC-upside-down-in-a-board with a real table saw and began the purchase of enough equipment to fill a jam-packed 40-foot shipping container we used after we sold our property in Michigan. The ski instructing had taken us to Colorado and we were spending too much on maintaining utilities for two homes. A couple years ago, the dozen years spent at 10,000 feet of elevation was making my body produce too many red blood cells, so we had to leave my “forever” home in the mountains and we moved back to Michigan. Now I have to find myself a shop space for all those tools in the container.

Re: request router recommendation

7/9/19, 7:19 PM #28

Steve Elliott
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Re: Discontinued Porter-Cable 3102

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Thanks, Jim. Usually tapping the collet works for me but I've had a few times where I ended up clamping the bit between pieces of scrap wood in my vise and using the wrench to turn the armature back and forth until I could work the bit out of the collet. Even then the collet didn't want to come out till it was tapped. I've tried oil and grease on the outside of the collet but now and then it still sticks.

Even with the problem I love those trimmers way better than any others I've used. They may have fewer features but they're designed better.

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