FTAGH - Useless router cutter!

[Steve Maskery]

I was routing a groove the other day. Brand new 1/4" cutter. Well it was not new, had it a couple of years, but never used it.

Within seconds, it started to chatter and before I had time to switch off it was poking up through my workpiece. That was a couple of hours wasted.

A bit of examination showed me that the shank is not 1/4", it is 6.2mm, and my collet would not hold it.

So before I chuck it, does anyone use 6mm, rather than 1/4" cutters, and if so, is 6.2mm too tight for your collect?

If you want it, let me know, otherwise it gets binned.

 

[sunnybob]

Bin it, go on, I dare yah

 

[Garno]

Don't bin it ever, no matter who dares you

 

[sunnybob]

Go on, be a man, dont listen to that other fellah, he's got a whole garden shed full of chinese rejects. :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

 

[lurker]

I may have the correct collet
And by great coincidence .............

 

[Steve Maskery]

It's yours!

 

[Garno]

Shame ……. I was all for you binin it.

 

[Steve Maskery]

It was from Rockler, so it should be perfectly decent. I don't understand how the shank can be so undersized.

 

[sunnybob]

I've seen similar complaints on a yankee forum about this subject.
But they binned theirs :roll: :roll: :wink: