Push or Pull the router

[Template Tom]

(1) When using the side fence attachment to rout rebates and grooves the router should be positioned with the side fence attachment on the right hand side and the router should be Pushed away from you or Pulled towards you

Tom

[oges]

-Pull-

[craigb]

Is this a poll :confused: :confused:

[bitingmidge]

No, I think it's a statement of fact.


P

[silentC]

I dunno about you guys but I'm tired of being told what I can and can't do.

Anyway, the idea is to move the router so that the rotation of the bit tends to pull the work towards the fence. So if you insist on having the fence on your right, then you should pull the router towards. Sometimes it's more convenient to have it the other way around, in which case you would push it away from you. I do it whichever way suits the situation - push, pull, left, right, whatever. If you can't hang onto a router, you shouldn't be using one

Now go on, tell me I'm a fool with a death wish.

[Grunt]

Now go on, tell me I'm a fool with a death wish.

Ok, you are fool with a death wish. Is that better. Any thing else you would like us to call you?

[silentC]

Yes, call me a cab because I'm out of here.....

[simon c]

I agree with silentc, it doesn't matter if you push or pull, as long as the piece is against the rotation of the router. Whether you push or pull depends on the size and orientation of the workpiece.

Simon

[bitingmidge]

Yes, call me a cab because I'm out of here.....

Errr....Silent.....don't you work from home????? There'll be a car hidden somewhere in the long grass.

P

[silentC]

That's a commonly held misconception. I actually rent a little 6x6 room from a friend. It is not possible to work from home when you have a 3 year old AND a shed full of toys calling your name in whispers: "come hither, come hither unto me. You know you wanna..."

This situation may change later this year (yes house is on the market) so I will need to buy a lock for the shed. Probably one of those time locks like the banks use on their safes.

[Grunt]

I work from home 3 or 4 days a week. I mostly manage to stay out of the shed.
If my motivation is a little down, my posting rate goes up. No kids to annoy me, just a wife and two dogs.

[Rocker]

There is some danger of confusion here. If Tom is talking about a clamped on fence, as in the upper diagram, then the router is pulled towards you if the fence is on the right hand side of the router, as SilentC says; on the other hand, if he is referring to an edge-guide fence fitted to the right hand side of the router, as in the lower diagram, then the router would be pushed away from you. I personally always fit an edge-guide on the left-hand side of the router, and pull it towards myself.

The correct feed directions are shown by the arrows. With an edge-guide, the router is moved anti-clockwise around the workpiece. With a clamped-on fence, the router is moved anti-clockwise around the fence.

Rocker

[Driver]

Yes, call me a cab because I'm out of here.....

Reminds me of that great Groucho Marx (allegedly true) story.

Groucho was waiting to pay his bill in a restaurant queue. The woman in front of him turns round, does a double-take and says:

"Would you be Groucho Marx?"

"Would I be?" says Groucho. "I am Groucho Marx. Who would you be? Hedy Lamarr, no doubt. Pay your bill, lady, you'll never make it!"

[Dan]

(1) When using the side fence attachment........ on the right hand side.

Tom

Pushed

[ozwinner]

I dunno about you guys but I'm tired of being told what I can and can't do.

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Go and make some sawdust in your shed, NOW!!

Al