Okay so the router bit vise for working on the bearings on router bits, well... was not something I ever thought I needed, until I did (see my post RE: the Bauer bit set).

Loring kindly sent along one of his surplus router bit vises he made in his shop. This is such a forehead slapping why didn't I think of that kind of basic idea and well executed.

Thank you so much!

Now to see if I can find a replacement bearing, screw is no problem straight forward metric and I have LOTS of those...

Thank you Loring for sending me that router bit vise. The tool I wasn't aware I needed!

As some MAY remember, years ago, the house next to me got rented out to some not so great renters, and I became very security focused after things started walking away...

Well fast forward to this past month and my oldest brother gifted me his now orphaned Wyze Pan Cam V3s. He went with a camera setup that doesn't have a subscription even though the Wyze subscription is relatively inexpenisve...

So between the gifted Wyze Cam Pan v3 that has auto tracking / pan / tilt, I also set up my Wyze Cam V3 that had been previously watching my fence line in the side of the house, now replaced with a Wyze Cam Battery with solar panel (had problems sourcing power for the cams without solar...).

Mind you I live in a decent neighborhood, but that's the problem. Thieves etc... from out of the area tend to stalk neighborhoods like mine since the PD that recognizes them is 2 towns away.

I hate th contribute to a surveillance state, but I can limit the monitoring range to the edge of my property. So since I am the one monitoring IN and ON my property, we should be good to go.

I have a couple of Ring devices left. A Ring Spotlight Cam wired, a Ring Doorbell cam, and a Ring Floodlight cam. I am trying to get off of Ring as the lag between event and notification is huge, like 30 seconds... WIth the Wyze it is almost instantaneous...

I have the Wyze floodlight cam to replace the ring that is basically the motion activated floodlight fixture typically seen in backyards and driveways but with a camera.

So to protect the shop itself I have the following coverage.

1 cam in the rear of the shop pointing toward the roll up doors
1 cam in the front of the shop pointing to the man door from the house.
1 cam outside down the driveway between the roll up doors.
Door contact sensors at each door
85db siren
Security keypad.

It stinks when the behavior of others makes you have to take security steps like this...

When I bought my Bauer trim router, I had very few 1/4 shank bits aside from my Rockler bits for the signmakers kit... Well I figured Harbor Freight has been upping their game, might as well take a shot at their Router bits...

I ordered the 15pc carbide router bit set, and it sat in the bench until this past weekend.

https://www.harborfreight.com/carbid...ece-59555.html

Decided to finally do something about my camper van bed platform, radiusing the corners and rounding the edges so that they can go in and out of the camper without thrashing everything...

I got less than 1 radius in when the flush trim bit threw the bearing off and bit into my jig...

Long story short. I was right to avoid Harbor Freight bits and blades years ago, and I should have stayed fast to that rule...

On the plus side, the 1/4 roundover bit did exactly what it was supposed to do without any rude surprises...