Thread: Shovelin Fool

Make sure the on/off switch is in the off position. This is a safety feature to stop you engaging the lock pin while the router is running, imagine the result.:eek:

1: What Termite said
2: I had a similar problem that didn't respond to 1: above - found that a tiny burr had formed on the pin/tube/spring assembly that's inside the base. Disassembled that bit, crawled around the yard to find all the bits that shot out, cleaned it & reassembled it, has worked fine ever since. You don't have to pull the whole router apart to get at the bit/s.

Huh! Just had a similar question in Japan.

Customer had turned the router off and still couldn't raise it. I was the third customer service agent to talk to him as the previous two had no luck. Wasn't till I made sure he had turned the router off at the switch on the router itself and not on the router stand that the problem was solved.

Sometimes the biggest problems are with language and expectations.

Steve

Thanks to all that answered - the cause was the on/off switch. Thanks Termite. I have never used the router control switch - the router being mounted in a triton router table which of course has its own.
Cheers Bob.

:eek: One of the best things about the Triton router any you were not benefitting from it? :eek:

Now you've found it, you will wonder how you ever lived without it. (The switch has a safety interlock to prevent any possibility of turning the router on while the shaft is locked)