Can you buy a dog leg spanner for a router table?

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My router table a UJK sets the router collet nut just below the table, i can just get in with a normal spanner but wondered if you can buy a spanner that allows easier undoing the nut?
A spanner which is double cranked so im not struggling all the time? Thanks
 
You can buy all sorts of spanners, whether you can find a supplier at a reasonable cost is another matter though.
Just get an ordinary cheap open end spanner, go to your nearest friendly garage or fabricator, and ask them nicely to warm it up and bend it for you, if you don't have the facility yourself. Shouldn't cost much if anything.
 
Spanners come in two main flavours: open ended or ring (or brake line/flare nut spanners if you want a third option). Could you say if one or the other format is preferrred or precluded from the setup.
 
The A/F measurement would also be important, as would the diameter of the circle available for the spanner body, as would the amount of crank.

Define your requirements well please.

The nearest to a cranked open ended spanner is a podger spanner, but they may not suit as they are very fat in the body.
 
I use one of these ...

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... it obviously only works with straight cutters.

This may help ... https://www.buybrandtools.com/acatalog/podger-spanners-snail-supertool.html

An alternative solution would be to leave a collet extension in the machine.

Hope that helps.
 
My mind is slow this morning, but the principle of option 3 above (flare nut/brake line spanner) combined with the shape of a standard cranked ring spanner would accommodate cutters of any diameter. The gap between the jaws would slightly need to exceed the shank diameter of the cutter.

What would need to be measured/verified is the distance between the underside of the cutter and the top of the nut so the spanner can go in sideways and then drop over the nut.

A standard cranked ring spanner could have a section of it cut out to this dimension and would still grip on five flats of the nut.

If the crank angle of a spanner is to shallow, cut the wall out of a 1/2" drive socket (a 1/2" square drive will fit over a 1/2" router shank) and weld a piece of flat bar to the socket. That would give you a low-height solution.

If you cut two entire flats out of a six point socket, effectively you are making it open-ended so the tool could be even shallower, never having to go downwards, only sideways.
 
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I've got one of these going spare if you're interested. I bought 2 of them as a pair few years ago at a very reasonable price. New old stock i think. It's designed for a Porter-Cable router collet. The dog leg offset is about 20mm.
Brian
 
Make a model one of similar design to the 29mm one above out of some thick card and photograph it against a sheet of graph paper. Then it can be drawn in CAD and sent to a laser cutter. You would have to put the bends in it yourself.

If your machine and setup is common, get five cut and sell the spares to recoup your own cost.

Pre-cut 22mm one here:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Makita-781011-1-Mt361-Rp0900-Spanner/dp/B00080A8JA

Brute force and vice by purchaser.
 
Make a model one of similar design to the 29mm one above out of some thick card and photograph it against a sheet of graph paper. Then it can be drawn in CAD and sent to a laser cutter. You would have to put the bends in it yourself.

If your machine and setup is common, get five cut and sell the spares to recoup your own cost.

Pre-cut 22mm one here:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Makita-781011-1-Mt361-Rp0900-Spanner/dp/B00080A8JA

Brute force and vice by purchaser.
You or I (I imagine) would just cut one out of a bit of 3mm plate or what we had knocking about, and then bend the crank to suit.
Half hour job. Don't really need it to be laser cut, although if you can get it done it'd be nice.
Last thing I made was a couple of C spanners for the lathe.
 
I may even just buy a musclechuck, they get good reviews

Its a one handed operation to undo the collet. Instead of bending down and pressing the spindle lock and trying to undo the collet. Plus it raises the collet by 15mm

Anybody use a Musclechuck?
 
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