if it aint one thing

[khaos]

its another...

Just got the final edge bit back to finish the outer bevel for my mother's 5 piece hickory doors. :) YAY. Taking the old bit out of my porter cable in my happy woodpecker holder in my jessem table. Nice easy job. Can do before supper. :) Queue mayhem noise and clouds. The factory PC collet snap ring pops off and falls INTO my 7518 PC .... :mad:

Needless to say I am less than thrilled. I dont use the precision collets on the table router cause its hand driven and I haven't felt the urgency to get off another $130. That urgency occurred at 5:30 today .... Damn what a pain.

So now I will go back outside and partially take apart my router table. If, when I turn the router right side up, the snap ring does not fall back out. What then? This is a relatively new PC. Good news it wasn't running. Bad news its not sitting on the blower fan.

[Ger21]

I've never seen a snap ring come off a PC collet in 25 years of using them. I have 5 or 6 PC routers, and have about 20 in the shop I work at. Was the bit really stuck?

[Brady Watson]

If, when I turn the router right side up, the snap ring does not fall back out. What then?

Shake it baby, shake it....like it owes you money. :D

If you can't get it out by shaking it, then take a deep breath and just take it apart. Take your time...do it right. Inspect the brushes while you're in there.

-B

[khaos]

I was able to lift the lift plate out with the router attached and the ring fell out straight away!! I really dodged a bullet. Also, I am meticulous about the collet pocket on my bot but apparently NOT with my router table. So the collet was stuck BECAUSE it was dirty as a politician. Well, it is all cleaned up and lubed now!

Sometimes you(yourself) are the problem. Today, I was.

Thanks Brady for the schematic.

[Brady Watson]

Thanks Brady for the schematic.

No problem...It was much larger before I attached it. I can't see squat on this one...

-B

[Brian Harnett]

You said it a newer one I have to wonder if that was part of the problem, I have pc routers over 20 years old with collets as old a while back I tried a friends PC ro sander it was nothing like my 20 year old one jumping around on the workpiece it looked the same that was about it.

Been rebuilding my old stuff to keep it going since B&D took them over I think 15 years ago, seems like it just happened time flies.

[khaos]

You said it a newer one I have to wonder if that was part of the problem, I have pc routers over 20 years old with collets as old a while back I tried a friends PC ro sander it was nothing like my 20 year old one jumping around on the workpiece it looked the same that was about it.

Been rebuilding my old stuff to keep it going since B&D took them over I think 15 years ago, seems like it just happened time flies.

I don't argue a lot of older gear is far superior to what we often get now.

I think this was a maintenance issue. I was not taking proper care of the tool. So there was contaminates in the collet seat. When I bought the precision collets for my bot I started a regimin of cleaning the seat and lubing the collets and nut about once a week. Since I was using the oem collets on the router table upstairs the lube bottle doesn't remind me to do the job. I have 3 of these 7518s and they are tough as hell. One of them has finally told me it quits until I get new brushes and springs based on the sparks. I knew that one was close.

bottom line here is its not the gear. Its the lazy user. In this case that's me. lol