Thread: I cheated death!

Originally Posted by jow104

The triton router table kit has a plastic bit guard that lays on the timber that is being passed across the router bit.

Would this prevent a router blade or tip being thrown out or just slow down its free force?

Anyone with experience? (and still alive)

Hi John,

With any moderate or larger bit (and possibly even a small one) I very much doubt that the plastic guard would do much more tha briefly slow the errant cutter.

I've had a bearing fly off (after the set screw head parted company with its thread, and this on a CMT bit), and that whizzing piece of metal zinged around the shed for a second or two - much to the increment of the dry cleaners revenue that week!

Originally Posted by jow104

The triton router table kit has a plastic bit guard that lays on the timber that is being passed across the router bit.

Would this prevent a router blade or tip being thrown out or just slow down its free force?

Probably neither, just add a few shards of hard plastic projectiles to accompany the metal one.
I succeeded in taking a lump out of a metal table with a router and bending the 1/2" shank, nasty things them big Hitachi's when the clamp holding it in the table came adrift, very character building.

Oh well I will have to get a suit of armour to go with that knighthood?