Changing TRA001

[A Duke]

Hi,
My trusty TRA001 router had a catastrophe after 11 years and is now a little bit broken270307 So what to do?
A) Get repaired. Not even considered. I am an electrician.
B) Order parts and repair. Part 80 UK Pounds plus postage. Think about it but it is 11 years old and other parts could be near their use by date so
C) Buy a new one. Check price on net $399 + postage, go to local hardware shop price $399 no postage, grab it go to pay and get another 4% senior's discount = happy chappy.
So to the point of this post take it home and compare 270308 (New one on left) First difference, a push button instead of a twist knob to engage gears, a 1/2" and a 1/4" collet instead of a 1/2" to 1/4" adaptor and a crank handle which isn't even mentioned in the instructions so I had to work out where to drill a hole in my table and then also had to file a nick in the adaptor plate for the guide bushes as it fouled the shaft. 270309 Here is a pic of page 1 & 2 of the manual 270310 It also had 4 screws I think for mounting on a thicker table, there was no mention of them either. It's the first router I have bought that didn't have a bit thrown in, the old one had a 1/2" straight bit.
I hope someone finds this waffle interesting.
Regards

[jw2170]

Hi Hugh,

Do you know what caused the break?

[snowyskiesau]

Can you not order parts for that model from Kinchrome?

[A Duke]

Hi Hugh,

Do you know what caused the break?
Yes:-
I was doing a final trim by going around taking up the slack on my circle cutting jig to just take a poofteenth off the job when I had an undies changing moment. I had not moved the off cuts from the table an one vibrated between the job and the cutter and went flying round the shed. I could not find it but it turned up in the pup's stash of stolen goodies out side the shed door a week later.
270322 The offending piece, note how the cutter did not cut it, it just grabbed it (at 22000 RPM) and rammed it through and forced the jig open.
270323 The jig and the finished job270324 It was one of the top plates that had the fun.

Of course Doing the router up with combination spanner 4" longer than the supplied spanned probably didn't do it any good either.
Regards

[Glenrob]

If so then personally I would get another one. They may have their detractors, but my 'old" Tra001 has served me faithfully for many years now (all table mounted) so unless someone can convince me that there's another brand out there that is so much more superior than the Triton (Festool notwithstanding), I'll be staying with what I still consider to be a bloody good and innovative (in its day at least) Australian machine.:aussie5:

Oi,Oi,Oi,
Bob

[Chief Tiff]

Ow, sounds like you had a bit of a close call there.

How does the new machine compare to the old in use? I also have the venerable old beast; mine's coming up for 10 years old now and apart from changing the bearings last year it's been a diamond. When it eventually spears in (or gets destroyed by a kamikaze off-cut) I'm intending to replace it with another. Is it still a 2.4kW machine?

I actually bought the baby one as well earlier this year, apart from the lower power the only other real difference is the lack of rack and pinion plunge. Nice wide base though. I've just bought a worktop cutting jig and a Trend 30mm guide bush that needs to be used with it. Now I just need to construct a replacement baseplate to mount the guide bush into....

[A Duke]

Hi Glenrob,
The TRA001 was designed and developed in Australia but has always been manufactured in Taiwan. As you say a bloody good bit of gear, that's why I got another one.


Hi Chief Tiff,
Would you believe after two months I still have not used it.
The Router bush kit for the Triton routers has all the necessary goodies to mount the standard 30mm brass guide bushes.

Regards

[delbs]

Hey a Duke. So the new model TRA001 has the above table height adjustment on it now?

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[Chief Tiff]

The Router bush kit for the Triton routers has all the necessary goodies to mount the standard 30mm brass guide bushes.

Regards

Does it? I was always told by Triton dealers that no-one made a 30mm bush for this machine, and that was one of the reasons it didn't sell as well as it could have in Europe.

Anyway, I've bought the bush now so I've just got to make a new baseplate and I can then use any Trend or Elu/Dewalt/Perles guide bush.

[A Duke]

Does it? I was always told by Triton dealers that no-one made a 30mm bush for this machine, and that was one of the reasons it didn't sell as well as it could have in Europe.

Anyway, I've bought the bush now so I've just got to make a new baseplate and I can then use any Trend or Elu/Dewalt/Perles guide bush.
Hi,
A picture is worth a thousand words
280888 and the instructions 280887

This is one of the earliest kits the later ones also fit the 2 smaller routers.
Regards

[Chief Tiff]

Did you mean a 30mm Porter cable style brass bushing?

These are a bit rare; PC don't list them although I did find one guy selling them HERE (http://www.betterbuildinghardware.com/products/screw-on-type-guide-bushing-30mm-od)

After another search I found THIS (http://www.raygirling.co.uk/mof001tg.pdf) which actually states that a Trend guide bush will fit into the Triton router bush kit; can you comment on this? If it is true then I might just splash out and buy one. The diameter of the Trend bush outer plate is 59.67mm; a nominal 60mm; how does that compare with a Triton bush?

I want to fit it to the Triton JOF001. Does the original router guide bush kit fit this machine or do I have to get the full TGA150 "accessories" kit (complete with a second height winder that I'll never use).

[A Duke]

Hi,
The guide plate (H) which is in the corner formed by the router and the plaque in the picture is used to line up the base plate when installing it, and can then also be used for the normal Porter Cable type 30 mm bushes as lots of kits, eg inlay, dove tail etc use their own special ones and would not work with any of the other bushes. I don't know the exact size of the Triton bushes off hand but the instructions (att to the previous post) say it will get in the way of a 2" (50.4mm) bit. The plate can be seen on the table top shot in the original post.
Hope this is of some help
Regards

[RicB]

when I had an undies changing moment. :roflmao:

Sorry, I know it's an old post I'm responding to, but that just made my day.....wife asked what was so funny, she heard me from other room, when I showed her she just rolled her eyes:roll: women, I dunno...

[A Duke]

By the way I should have mentioned the new one is a "TRA001B and both are 240V, 2400W.
Regards