Thread: Wandering router - in table!!!

Hi all. Could do with some advice.

I have the Triton TRA-001 router clamped underneath the Carbatec cast iron top router table.

Aside from almost slicing off my finger when putting the table together (heavy top!) it's been a pretty good combination, until recently.

I'm simply cutting a 5mm rebate into some non structural pine and half way through the first cut I realised there was a problem. I shut everything down and discovered that the router had moved in the table, the bit was grinding on the insert plate and the wood was ruined.

I checked underneath the table and one of the supplied clamps holding the router in place was completely loose. I checked the others and found another that was not tight. So I put it all back together, tightly, and started again.

Same thing happened.

I'm guessing that vibration is loosening the clamps, but I cannot work out what to do about it.

Anyone that's got one of those tables will know it's not the best instruction manual for putting something together but unless there's a trick to those clamps that hold the router in place that I've missed I'm at a bit of a loss.

The timber isn't the problem, it's the damage to the bits and the danger of exploding shrapnel that's worrying me.

Can anyone suggest a cause? Or had a similar problem?

Thanks.